[efhughes3]

Buck:

The case is pretty easy to pack well, with several thicknesses of cardboard surrounding it. Bolt it together with a couple of nuts on top and on bottom, and it's pretty sound.

The crank fits nicely into a 24" long piece of 6" PVC. It took a few wraps of bubble wrap, and it was as snug as a "bug in a rug". As it is the heavy piece, it worried me the most, but when I did the PVC trick, it was obvious it wasn't going to get hurt.

Cams fit into 2" PVC the same way.

To me, it was worth the few buck in shipping to get the stuff in front of someone that knows the parts. I couldn't get any good recommendations of people in Dallas. I know there are good machinists that can probably do this, but when you're spending several thousand $ to rebuild, I personally didn't want to skimp or take chances. My opinion...