Thank you for the reply. With the cylinders, I honed them out with a honing tool from AutoZone. After I had posted my first post, I went back outside and use that same tool and honed out that hole which did knock down the ridges that were in it. I figured if the bearing has to get pushed into...
I recently bought a new boat that had a 4.3 MerCruiser in it that was seized up. Water got in the cylinders and one of the freeze plugs popped. I removed the engine, to inspect to see if the block had any cracks and clean up all the rust. Disassembled it down to the block and after cleaning it...