Made it in time after work to pick up the engine hoist. Managed to get it pulled, with the hood on.
I was going to remove the water pumps prior but I neglected to notice the bolt thru the bottom inlet. Glad I didn't pry and bang on it. Had to twist slightly to get double pulley past the hood latch brace. Had a comfortable amount of clearance all the way around.
Have a bunch of 1/4" flat steel plates so I ended up making a lifting plate that covers the entire valve gallery. A little overboard compared to the summit lifting plate but better safe than sorry.
I ended up running out of welding wire before I was finished the exhaust mount adapter for my engine stand so I ended up just pulling #3 & #7 pistons and rod bearing for now. #3 is the cylinder which had the bad wear in the cylinder wall due to a suspected loose piston pin retaining circlip. Turns out just the little doodad or doomahickie, whatever its called was snapped off of the retaining circlip. Amazing what kind of damage a little piece of spring steel can do.
If you look closely, you can see the circlip is still in place, it is only the little doodad thats broken off/missing. I found the little piece inside the center of the piston pin, hence the wear on both sides of the piston ring on the cylinder wall.
What the circlip used to look like.
A couple pics of the rod bearing after meeting metal bits.
Broken ring discovered on #7 cylinder.
Interesting repair previously done to the oil pick up.
Will get more welding wire tomorrow so I can get this thing on a stand and continue to disassemble.