Today we were supposed to swap the engines... We strugled a little bit to get the old one out, but finally succeeded. Then, we figured out how to check the compression on the "new" motor I got from Sean here in corvallis, and it came up with 40 40 40 60...

The "new" engine's story:
The intake and exhaust ports and valves look WAY worse and much more gummed up than my car's damaged engine's ports(we took the head off...and the manifolds and such). The "new" motor had been pressure washed yesterday, so when we started going through it today, when we turned it over, out came about 1/2 gallon of water... That was disturbing, because we didn't know it was from the wash it got yesterday. BUT looking into the engine's cylinders at the top of one of the pistons that had some water in it, it looked like there was (i don't know how to describe it) really gross fungus looking like stuff kinda or something, i don't know, discolored, like yellow, green, brown, grey whatever crap in there... Bad description, but i can't really describe it. Someone suggested that it could have had something to do with the old gas and stuff from the engine sitting for a year. This was also his suggestion for the car having pretty much no compression. A combination of gas on the rings and no oil in the car could be part of the compression story he says. The engine was taken out of a wrecked 242 last year though, and it still drove around...

My damaged motor's story:
So, we took it out, and crushed the distributor cap in the process... After messing around with the "new" engine, and finding it in it's shape, we decided to have a look at my motor... Off went the intake and exhaust manifolds, to show pretty darn clean looking intake and exhaust ports and valve stems(i wonder how much of that has anything to do with me running good gas and using water to clean up the place... but the water would mostly help out with carbon on the tops of the pistons though, who knows). Then we took off the head. You know how i said the car ate that screw? Well, it did. That screw, broken into two pieces, one of which was basically WELDED to the top of the piston, and the other piece of which was loose and there was lots of evidence of it banging around in there and chewing up the cylinder. Pictures are coming. And actually, the reason we took off the head, was because we were trying to turn over the engine to get out the gear on the bottom of the distributor(we just yanked the dizzy out, didn't know if we were/are supposed to do it a certain way, and the gear stayed in the engine, and we can't get it out...???) and so when we were turning the engine over by hand, it would stop and get stuck... And keep in mind, that we were turning the car on to drive it onto a trailer, and from the trailer into a driveway. And yes, it was LOUD knocking, VERY loud knocking.

I'll keep talking after my mind settles down a bit. I need help on what i should do, but i have more info and some options to put out there, i'll get back to it later tonight though. I just wanted to get an intro to the situation down... :'(
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Kyle - attending Ore. State, while my lil '68 142 (256k, 74 b20, m40, iPd bars, other misc... =D) DIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!