Lucky me, my sons came by a couple weeks ago and pulled the block out of the car for me. I rebuilt it and yesterday they took time to come back and put it back in. They dropped it in bolted it back up raised the engine cradle and bolted that back to the frame. I can now finish the engine assembly and install the heads and everything else. Great to have grown sons who love working on vehicles themselves and take the time to help their Dad.

 

 

Moving forward, well done guys.

Best of luck getting it all bolted back together.

 

 

to your sons for helping out. Good luck in finishing up and getting the beast back on the road.

 

That's great......

Jim

 

 

So nice to hear! Good luck and best wishes going forward. Take care!

 

glad to hear your moving forward

 

What gives??? With all that extra help I would have thought someone would have been busy snapping pics!

 

Truth!^^^

 

I literally hate you guys who are able to pull/rebuild your engine like its changing a set of tires

bastards, the whole lot of you

 

That Vette needs to be on the Road !!

 

You are one lucky dad...but you did not need me to tell you that. Get her buttoned up and make some tracks. Oh, don't forget to take them all out for wings and beer, lol. Let us know how she runs.

 

Sounds like you have raised fine sons who gladly help out their Dad.

 

Family is what it is all about.

 

 

Just installed the Power steering rack yesterday and other parts, will continue to work on it again today. Shouldn't be but a few more days before it's maiden shake down run.

 

Remind me how deep you went into the block, what's new and what stayed.

 

All the way in. Removed the rods and once I started on the crankshaft I saw no wear on journals or main bearings so I just torqued them to yield specs and left good well enough alone. After pistons were inspected no discernable wear was apparent as were the cylinders with original cross hatching was still in there. So I just needed to hone them out and install new piston rings and rod journal bearings(they really were in great shape) since I had them out for the piston ring R&R. The piston skirt wear was almost non existent. I replaced both front and rear main seals and cover gaskets.

As it stands the block is as good as new and the car will be back up to specs once it is complete. These LS1's are almost bullet proof and this should last another 200,000 miles.

To be quite honest, the biggest problem I saw in this block were the 2 pistons which had the piston rings line up with each end gap. so with the oil control rings wore out they just became an oil pump letting too much oil get into the 2 combustion chambers on the passenger side. It was obvious by the short 5 minutes of running the new plugs that showed up fouled black with carbon from the excessive oil. Which was the over riding factor to pull the engine and re-ring it.

I also replaced the oil pump with the higher volume LS6 oil pump, and the timing chain. Although upon inspection the original oil pump and timing chain were completely fine. I just already had the new items on the bench and decided to just do them.