Thursday Progress

On Friday we left for the inlaws' house, so I wouldn't be able to work on the motor over the weekend, so I snuck out to the garage for a couple hours on Thursday night after the baby went to bed.

I pulled the timing chain cover off, then the oil pump, then the timing chain and gears. After that I pulled the cam retainer plate and slid the cam out of the block. Around the back side of the block I pulled the rear cover, the cam sensor, and the crank sensor. Pulling the rear cover was a pain in the ass... I had to pick the motor back up with the lift so I could pull the engine stand bracketry off teh back. While I was in there I forgot to pull the dumbell (it's an oil plug), but hopefully I can get that out without re-lifting the motor again.

I took pictures, but I'm in CT right now, so I can't post them. In any event, the only thing left to pull out of the block now is the rotating assembly, but that won't happen until after christmas. I asked for a tray that holds the rotating assembly parts (minus crank) for christmas, but if I don't get it I'll buy it myself so I can start pulling it apart. Once that crap is out I'm going to clean up a lot of the casting crap in the block with a die grinder prior to sending it to the machine shop.

Right now I'm pricing out my new rotating assembly, and starting to think about my strategy for the machining. I suspect that after I get the block torn down I'll have to bring it to the machine shop in order to see what amount of overbore we'll need. Once we figure that out, I can order my rotating assembly. Once that comes in the machine shop should be able to do the overbore. I'm going to need to talk to the machine shop to get an estimate on the cost of the machine work. Since that cost is going to hit me at the same time as the rotating assembly, I'm going to need to be sure that I can afford it! That rotating assembly isn't going to be cheap. :(

An ever so slight amount of progress

Not much going on with the motor right now, but I've managed to nake some progress. My clutch master cylinder finally arrived, and I managed to buy an f-body oil pan. I also cleaned up a lot of the truck parts like the heads, oil pan, etc.

After Christmas I hope to pull apart the short block, then start talking to the machine shop about the rebuild.