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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
We had a nice chat about it. I then emailed the fireman and suggested getting someone to drop the pan and survey actual damage. Apparently there are shops which will redo the babbit bearings. I have also heard of converting them to slipper bearings. Homer thinks rings and such are readily available. Perhaps the engine does not actually have a broken rod and it is just garbled information from two decades past. 
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The guy from whom I purchased my GMC truck had a Packard engine sitting on a pallet in his garage. He had rebuilt it for someone a few years ago but the guy had run the engine out of coolant and toasted the bearings. He was sending it off to get the babbit bearings redone. He told me the cost to do this was $1600 PER CYLINDER, if I remember correctly. I think the engine was a straight 8.