you are not alone with your probloms with out soursing ya stuff. had a short block done by a good shop here. 8 months later i got it back and wound up having to take it all apart and redoing it. oil galley from the pick up to the timing cover was full of crap clogged the spring in the pump bypass. oil psi went to the moon for a second them dropped...... waisted everything. hell thay didn't even bottom tap the head bolt holes. that is the first and last time anyone will go inside any of my mills ever. 6700 bucks and didn't even get a data sheet with it. glad it all fixed up for ya... lets see some time slips