defect in the Merlin III block
12-26-2004, 06:05 AM
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Re: defect in the Merlin III block
Not to mention Merlin skimps on the most important ingrediant @ the foundry. Nickel... I had a DEFECT with a head and had a pinhole thru the water jacket in the exhaust port. Drove me nuts trying to find the source of milk shake.
12-26-2004, 12:47 PM
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Re: defect in the Merlin III block
Originally Posted by cig1988
Not to mention Merlin skimps on the most important ingrediant @ the foundry. Nickel... I had a DEFECT with a head and had a pinhole thru the water jacket in the exhaust port. Drove me nuts trying to find the source of milk shake.
12-26-2004, 01:05 PM
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Re: defect in the Merlin III block
I worked for World products [Bill Mitchell] and the blocks are no where near the quality of a Dart block big M.The problem with World is unhappy employees because you get treated like dirt, so there is a continual revolving door of different employees.Therefore the quality is in the s h i t t e r!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12-26-2004, 02:50 PM
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Re: defect in the Merlin III block
MY problem was a casting flaw, not machining. I found out the problem I had wasn't unheard of & decided to let them repair my block rather than replace it. If the new one was bad after I bored, honed, decked, assembled, & installed it again I would have been more than just pissed off. Thought it safer this way.
