Hahaha I always been a great guy, at least from this side looking at me. Now on that other side of fence looking at me I wonder, suspect.....Were you a great guy afterwords, or still friends.
probably needed that Piston replaced anyway....
Goat
GM guys love them, but that's all they're worth today to me. And that's on a good day.
Oh no! & here I was gonna re-do the kit in mine that's in my '69 C30 with the dump flatbed that I hauled last Dec to Oregon from setting 33 yrs at my BIL, not fired or run but set in that hot humid NE Tx rainy country. Engine now freed up & I fired her other day, but she needs a kit bad! 4 brl Quad-jet
Here I was feeling good & suddenly you tell me that on a good day..... 
I soak mine. I'll let them sit for at least 3 days completely submerged in oil. I haven't had a problem. I haven't tried pumping them up and, honestly, I usually let them sit for a week. A few years back, a friend was putting a cam and lifters in his Chevy 350. He let the lifters sit submerged for 3 days and he had no problems. With the lifters that is. The rest of the engine? Well let's just say that he had problems.
