I'll be dropping the new engine in on Sunday...

Stay tuned!

(I am dying to get my baby back on the road!)

Better you than me (although I wish I could be a helper!)...!!! Have fun and good luck!

|QUOTE|Norsky said: Better you than me (although I wish I could be a helper!)...!!! Have fun and good luck!|/QUOTE|

*I* wish you could be a helper!
In fact, I wish someone else was doing it all together! I just wanna drive it already!

|QUOTE|Adam said: I'll be dropping the new engine in on Sunday...
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So how's the "patient"? Got a pulse yet?

|QUOTE|Norsky said: So how's the "patient"? Got a pulse yet?|/QUOTE|

Funny you should ask...
I just finished posting "Day 5"
Click here to read all about it!

So it's now in the hands of my mechanic.
As you may have read in another post, it may take as much as 2 weeks for him to get it done. Not 2 weeks of labor, enough free time over 2 weeks to do work on it. He's "fitting it in" between other "scheduled work." I don't know why mine can't be considered scheduled.

Anyway, the fuel pump was leaking upon arrival to his shop, (actually it was leaking as it left my garage), so he's got a new one now. He's said he's got it up in the air, but hasn't really done anything else.

I gave him all the parts in the back of the Vette, so he says he's got to inventory all of it, then it goes under the car while he works on it. He said he can't do the inventory until he has had a chance to look at the underside thouroghly.

I Hate Waiting! But I guess it beats doing it myself.

He called me this morning to tell me the bad news...

He couldn't get the engine to turn because the transmission is seized.
I killed the converter putting the new engine in place.
So now it's got to be towed to a trans place to get the trans rebuilt before my guy can continue to finish the engine. Which may also be dead. He said the crankshaft was pinned too far back and may have ruined the engine.

Note to self - never install an engine myself.

I'm sorry to hear it Adam. Hopefully everything will work out and you'll be running in no time.

What did you have to do to the crank shaft? If it is incorrect, shouldn't the supplier of the engine be responsible for it and replace the engine? Try to blame them from ruining the trans while you are at it!
Good luck, I hope my engine replacement goes easier than yours has gone so far.

Well, just heard from the Trans place...it basically is going to be rebuilt, and a new Torque Converter put in.
For the low low price of just 1100 bucks!

Keep those donations coming!!