Well, as fate would have it. My truck decided to start hem-ridging oil from somewhere. I had already planned to pull the motor and start a tare down for pistons, but I'll do some research on having the block deck evened out. Upon that not being feasible(I live in a smaller town and the closest place that will even Port/Polish the heads I can find is 2 hours away). I'll sadly have to go with the "time bomb" combo that's being used. Thank you very much for taking the time to help and go into the detail as you have. Wasn't expecting to get a response quickly, yet alone a very detail oriented reply addressing the issue. I suppose time to buy a motor stand and get busy watching how to videos to get pistons out .