**UPDATE**

I have been too busy to play with the hobbies lately. My wife gave birth to our first child on April 18th so I've been extremely busy. I was able to get down to the shop for a while this evening. I re-heated the block and the new bearings popped in very smoothly. I noticed about 2 or 3 thousands of an inch play in the shaft. I can push it in and pull it out by that much. My other GMS engines do not have this "feature", but my OS engine that runs great and has never been taken apart does the same thing. I had to replace the teflon pin retainers too...the new ones could have gone in a little nicer but they should be fine. I oiled it all up and it felt like it had good compression.

I pulled the GMS off my trainer and popped this one on. Got everything tweaked and tried to start it. At this point I wasn't expecting much since I have made several mistakes throught the process. No worries...It runs great from a nice smooth idle all the way to WOT. I didn't run it very long because it got dark. Weather permiting, I'll run some fuel through it tomorrow and get it tuned in. I'll leave it on the trainer for a bit until it proves itself. Then it's going on my World Models Ultimate 40S.

Thanks again for all your help.
-Rocko