[rritchey]

Kevin,
If you can buy ANY part of a sideoiler shortblock for $300 you better not let it get away. Even if all you get out of it is 7 good rods you still got your money's worth. The block could have any number of problems, it could have spit out that one rod and knocked a hole in the side. That's not good, but usually can be fixed. If it just needs one sleeve, you actually found a pretty good block, the vast majority of side-oilers running around have at least one sleeve. If the crank is not hurt it is worth way more than $300. Find out more about it and let us know so we can all be jealous of you if you found such a good deal.