Thread: BBC, I'm such a moron!

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Hi everyone,
I lost oil pressure in my Big Block and pulled it to see the extent of the damage and found that the oil pump pickup had fallen off. Needless to say the next pump will have it welded or bolted on but now I have a mess of an engine.

In my frustration of pulling the mess apart, I pulled the main caps off prior to marking them and now I'm not sure which goes where.
It's a Big Block Chevy and the main caps have a successive number and arrow cast into them but I'm not a hundred percent sure that the number corresponds to their location.

Any help for a dummy out there?

They go in numbered sequence front to rear and the arrows face to the front.

Thanks very much guys. I still can't believe I did it but Oh-well, I'll look closely at the chamfer as well. I figured that the numbering "should" help but you bring in a good point regarding Monday and Friday mornings.
Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed.
Looks like the crank needs some grinding and some of the lifter bores took a beating as well. I assume that the lifter bores can be touched up while I have the shop work over the rest of the block?

If the lifter bores are not gouged too bad, you can clean them up with a brake cylinder hone.

Don't feel like you are the first one to have one of those pickups fall out, DOH!!! It happened to me with my 400 SBC in a bracket car and I spun a bearing. Pulled the motor, flipped it over and pulled the crank out, had it turned and replaced the rod bearings and put it back together without even pulling the heads. When I sold it, it had over 350 runs on it and was still going strong.

Pat

You guys are starting to make me rethink throwing myself towards the little end of a long 3/8" drive extention and putting me out of my misery.

Unbelieveable the amount of damage that can happen so quickly without oil pressure. I was afraid that I just made matters worse by messing up the block as well.

Thanks very much.......

I don't want it to hurt!!!!!!!!!!

Don't do anything drastic Dabean. Take a shot of nitrous and it will all seem funny.
AL

Seems like it would be a waste of perfectly good nitrous to waste it on a schmuck like me when somebody could put it to so much better use!!!

now for the drug facts, dont take nitrous from the car bottles, they are mixed with bad stuff, they make you sick and dead Instead go to a pipe shop and find a cracker then go to a kitchen aid store and get some whipped creme nitrous, much safer and makes you . I do not condone using nitrous and have never done it

Ahh......memories.......Whippets ...........If only I could get some of those brain cells back !!!!!!! The 70's but a hurttin' on my hard drive !!!