I have some good news. Made some progress today.
Called K1 and put the phone on speaker and just left while I farted around on the interwebz. After about 10 minutes, I was forwarded to Weisco (their parent company) and somebody actually picked up the phone. I guess I'd never waited that long (on hold) before. Apparently there is just zero communication at K1.
The guy at Weisco said that he showed them being in stock, but he couldn't tell me anything about my order because I made it thru Summit (which I find a little funny since it's a drop order so they must have my name in their system...but anyway.) So I had to go BACK to Summit (for about the 3rd or 4h time) and told the I just got off the hone with the manufacturer and they are in stock, so why haven't they shipped my order yet? So they put me on hold, got with the manufacturer, and they are SUPPOSED to ship my crankshaft out today. SOme sort of SNAFU in the system, but I suspect that my crankshaft was just sitting there all along.
When I get my tracking code, I'll finally sigh a sigh of relief.