Our son cooked the transmission oil on his 145, and the transmission has slowly died; it now won't go in reverse, and goes forward with reluctance. California has a program of buying pre-1982 cars, to get high-polluting vehicles off the road, and he'd love to sell it to that program ($500), but it requires that the vehicle be driveable forward 20 feet and backward 10 feet, or something like that (sounds like so much of my life: forward two steps, back one...but I digress).

Is there anything we can do without tearing into the transmission that will get it working for this purpose, and perhaps for the 15 mile drive to the junkyard (if the former, but not the latter, we can trailer it close to the destination)? I'm thinking of something like the old sawdust-in-the-transmission trick that worked for manual trannys. Since the car will get turned into a cube, I'm not worried about the effect on the transmission.

If not, our other son wants to pull the (fuel-injected) motor to install in a 444 or 544 on which he may have a line. Assuming he plugs the injector holes and installs a fuel pump of some kind, is there anything about the B20F motors that's incompatible with carburetors?