I ordered a Chevy 350 from Summit for the project late January. I had instructed them to hold it at the shipping depot so I could just have them drop it into the bed of my truck with a forklift...like I have done multiple times. Welp, I came home and the engine was sitting in the middle of my driveway...ugh. I don't have any equipment to move around an engine at my house so I had to drag the crate just inside of my garage doorway.
So I had to bring home the cherry picker and engine stand so I could move it around. While it was at my house (and stuck in an ice storm) I went ahead and primed the intake manifold I had ordered as well and after the ice cleared, loaded it up in the truck to take it to the workshop.
After it was in the shop, I spent a day or two removing the old paint on the engine block (which had the same adhesiveness of black shoe polish) and taping it off to paint it to match the transmission. I also painted and installed a few of the peripheral parts (water pump, timing chain cover, etc) and was ready to install it into the chassis.
1949 Chevy Panel Truck A Project Journal I'm old but I make up for it by being immature.
