How to pull a Shortblock?

I was confused by your original sentence. If your whole purpose is to be able to remove the oil pan, you only need to raise the engine up a few inches. You can do this by unbolting the mounts at the lower nut and using a floor jack. A 1/2" steel rod can pass thru the triangle opening in the K-frame to fit in a large hole in the bottom of the block outside the oil pan. Once off the mounts use blocks of wood to hold it up. Anyway, you are going big.

The main goal is to replace the oil pump and the gasket. I hate working underneath the car anyway and my back can only take so much leaning.

Oh well. This is always my process. Read, read,read, break, break, break, get extremely pissed off, pull everything out, start over.