The Earl Truck: An Even Sloppier LS-Swapped Colorado

In reply to RacetruckRon :

I'm happy to report:

Been chipping away at the engine pull and tonight my buddy Dave came over so we could remove the low compression 5.3. Time to switch over the cam and valve springs. And clean the garage. 

Pulled the drivers side head off the "low compression" motor and now I'm second guessing myself again. Do you think this would cause low compression? You can see where the water sat, but it just doesn't look that bad.  Maybe I should get a new compression tester?

Rings lost tension. Or it's cracked the second ringland.

In other news the head gasket looks really corroded. 

This pic doesn't look like much, but I can't tell you how much work I had in cleaning up the long block. It was a ton of wire wheeling, scraping, and digging with a screwdriver. 

Next is swap the cam and springs from the bad 5.3 and then paint the long block. 

Isn't it just quicker to power wash the engine to get the grime off? 

Just kidding...I'll see myself out

In reply to nsogiba :

I deserve that. 

Hell. That's what I went through to get the last of three broken exhaust studs out. The stud would not take a weld. Had to weld on flat stock that finally stuck and then has to spin it out with a screwdriver and a hammer. Absolute hell.