Update - C10's in the Park starts with a Cruise on Friday, Sept 17th! That is 3 days away...
Got the engine fired up on Sunday, super excited since it is a huge step. My harness works and all is good there, just need to make it more acceptable in its appearance. We ran the engine for about 30-40 seconds, because we saw a pretty good leak on the driver side. Turns out, I put the wrong gasket in for the oil cooler bypass block. Fixed that and went to re-fire the engine. No Bueno...Locked up tighter than Ft. Knox!
Came back last night, pulled the engine and trans and got it on the stand. Pulled the pan, found that #6 rod was bent! Pulled that rod/piston out and the crank and bearings look dang near new...Korbin had a set of gen4 LS rods, so we pulled one of those out, swapped the piston to the new rod, cleaned it all up and put that back in the block. Did not have the torque wrench at the shop, so did not get any further last night. All in all it was a good night, 2.5 hours to completely remove parts and get the engine out, split from the trans, converter removed, put on a stand, diagnosed the issue, and replaced the offending part. All that includes moving two other engines out of the way, pulling one off an engine stand and putting everything back in the shop to call it a night.
Plan is to go back to the shop tonight, finish putting it back together, put it back in the truck and see if we have time to try to start it again. We will see how it goes. Looks like I will be at the shop every night this week to get this ready to go to the show on Friday.
Pictures of the bent rod in the engine before we pulled it out, and a pic of it with a good rod. You can see in one pic the shiny spot on the crank counterweight where the piston rubbed the crank.
