To try and make a long story short, at least 4 wrist pins and associated rod ends are galled (I only took one apart and the galling was severe in the rod end and the pin was also toast).

This is my old detuned race motor that was in my street/strip car. Has old Arias dome pistons that had the dome cut down - the pistons look fine. I had the motor rebuild (and detuned) and it does not have a lot of time on it since the rebuild. The motor has home ported 906 heads on it and 9:1 compression.

Took the motor apart because it had a very annoying noise in it that was driving me nuts and the converter went south so I decided to go back with the original 383.

Was getting ready to reassemble this motor (no plans for it other than a viable spare and was tripping over the parts) when I found the bad wrist pins.

The pins are floating. What would have caused it and now how do I fix it on the cheap?