<VV> line boring blocks

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I keep having hazy recollections that back around 197? when TRW was still in the engine parts business they listed main bearings with oversized ODs, and maybe cam bearings too.  
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Dan Timberlake

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Smitty says:    What is wrong with  getting each journal turned down to 
fit its own bore?  A lot of people  are talking about line boring the block but I am not sure they have knowledge  of tool availability to do the job.  
Talking about what they do for V Ws  doesn't say the average shop can do it for us.  I had a block in the 70s  that had distorted Mains.  It was only a couple of thousandths  I  wanted to get it line bored to clean it up and then use shims behind the  inserts.  Couldn't find anyone in Tidewater that would do it. Tooling  they said.  So next step would be for me or someone else to get a cam  done to fit a block, or prove the availability of tooling to do a line  bore.