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Still here, and getting closer. Going to hopefully get the parts over to the machine shop to get polished up and then start re-assembly. I got sidetracked due to another kid coming online as a...

Still here, just too damn cold to do anything.... Got all the parts and gaskets, just don't have a garage and have about 8" of snow on the ground and a high temp of 28....

The sender is at the top of the block behind the intake. It is possible this is the issue the whole time. I could not explain the lifter noise or lack of oiling to the front lifters. I have the whole...

he had me order extra clearance main and rod bearings. If I remember correctly they had like 0.0028" - 0.0030" roughly clearance almost across the board.

Well, the engine guy just handled the machine shop interaction, as around here there are very few and far between, so they don't really deal with individuals. He also gave the recommendations on...

I'm starting to think that this, besides the actual broken piston/rings, is kind of a blessing in disguise seeing how the bearings look. I think it must have been the fact that I just opened up,...

Besides the obvious broken piston, the colors on the rod ends seem good, the bearing and journal do seem to have evidence of some debris passing through maybe leftover from the machine shop work and...

I had put this in new:
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and have had 60PSI on cold startup even at idle, dropping down to about 18-20PSI when scalding hot at idle... The motor guy who did...

Bore looks fine. So does head, just a clean area where you can see the bolt smashed between the piston and the head. The head won that one.

When I drained the oil and coolant came out, my heart...

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It sounded like it popped when it bound up, I guess it just like blew apart! Head seems ok, cylinder walls seem ok. Is it normal to have coolant in the oil pan after removing an...

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Out. Again...

Broken $h!t:

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It's like a grenade went off! WTH? It wasn't even running, just bumping the starter for the valve adjustment (Disclaimer, I needed to rotate...

Two more bolts and the engine is out. Hoping to get that done tonight. Then on the stand and apart she goes. I will try to get a better pic of the broken piston with the borescope, because seeing...

The saving grace, hopefully, is that I was only tapping it with the starter. The cylinder, rod, rod bearing, head and block should still be ok. I will check the valves for leakage while it is apart...

Ok, looks like I will not be pursuing this for a while. I had dropped a bolt from the evap solenoid and it fell down between the intake and head where I couldn't quite reach it. I then promptly...

When running with the old CompCams lifters, they all seemed noisy. There was almost nothing coming out of the top of the pushrods in that I had to run for like 5 minutes to even see any accumulation...

I don't seem to be able to attach any video. I wanted to show what I was seeing to get confirmation that I should be good when I get this back together... Basically, I ran the drill pump and saw...

Ok, with the lifters out and the intake off, I installed the drill pump which has the blocking spacer like a real distributor shaft and saw oil dumping out the rearmost lifter bores. DS came out the...

Got them out, soaking new and will check galley to make sure clear an open with oil flow using drill pump on Dist shaft.

Parts in hand! I plan to at least start the lifter swap tomorrow, Sunday.
update: got here.
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Lifter update: Tomorrow, October 17 by 7:00 P.M.
I recall that when I had put in the drilled oil galley plug in the rear by mistake it pissed oil at an impressive rate on the flex plate, torque...

OK, so I didn't give up yet!!! However I bailed on the Lunati as they kept pushing out the ship date without any sort of feedback or notification from Jegs, or Lunati. The 'order status' was the...

ugh, still not shipped.... Jegs shows 'ships in 24 hrs direct from manufacturer', but not to me!

Supposedly shipping out tomorrow (Monday 10/02)

So the plot thickens.... I got the 'backorder' notice from Jegs. However, when I go to their website, it says 'expected to ship directly from the vendor within 24 hours' for the availability. I...