My engine won't turn but, no need to panic yet.

My friend Siegfried the super mechanic looked over my truck and discovered lots of positive points about my truck. He also wasn't shy about telling how work it will be. In prepartion of his visit he had me do a few things before he arrived. I removed the spark plugs and put a few ounces of Dexron III in each cylinder to aid freeing up any frozen pistons. I also did a major clean up of the cab that had been mouse central for many years it was gross! Dust mask, gloves and elbow grease solved the problem.

Once Sieggy arrived we did a general inspection and then we tried to turn the old girl over, she wasn't having any of it. The little flat head 6 was locked in position. In order to learn more about the engines prognosis I have to do a cylinder head removal and send pictures to Sieggy. Too bad I had hoped I might be able to do minimal service to get the 218 purring.