I was wondering if you were able to get the crank gear out thru the front plate. Looks like it worked out, but with a bit of fiddling around to get it thru the hole. I had to pull the crank gear on mine, because the pistons were frozen up and I couldn't get to the oil pump retainer pin until I could turn the crank a bit. I didn't catch on your video what size the rod bearings were. My 235 crank will probably need to be reground, so thinking about having it ground offset to increase the stroke just a bit. A standard crank could be ground 0.040 undersize on the rod journals, which would put the top of the Buick pistons 0.020 closer to the top of the deck on the 216. Without an offset ground, my calcs say the piston tops will be 0.06 below the deck. Offset grinding would increase the compression ratio just a bit.
