I didn’t have a truck for a couple of years and was just building hotrods. I had a time or two I really needed to take a look at a crank and remember wishing it was a truck so I could actually drop the pan without pulling the entire engine or suspending it and dropping the suspension and...
That stinks for sure!
I went through the same thing with an AMC 360 once. Looked over a short block I picked up cheap and remembered it being mint. Couple years later I was in a bind and needed to pull it out and build it over a weekend to swap into my Javelin and drive to work on Monday...