How fresh is the engine?

Really have no idea, the corrosion isnt that bad, but it did have a couple mm of carbon built up inside the combustion chambers and on the pistons, but the bores look ok.

 

Whilst ive got the motor out, any recommendations? Whats a decent cam/ grind worth roughly?

How hard is it to turn over, give us an idea, if you grab the front crank pulley even with both hands can you turn over the motor or do you need use a ratchet on the crank bolt to turn it over ..

 

If it is really tight then you will need to pull the sump off & i would pull the camshaft front cover off at the same time to & have a look in there to & if it appears ok then start removing bearing caps & inspecting as you go, I said throw in another motor as if its spun a bearing by the time you strip & machine all the parts its going to cost you heaps compared to a good running second hand motor ..

Edited February 2, 201511 yr by lexsmaz

It was only turning over by putting a spanner on the crank pulley and giving it a turn, and only as far as you would turn the pulley..

 

I'm not exactly a small guy, and it took a fair amount to get it to turn..

 

Anyway, a bit of good(ish) news, got the motor on the stand and pulled the sump off (not before having a lifter fall out, then turning the motor over to take them all out)

 

Once the sump was off, I tried to turn it over again just by grabbing the fan, and lo and behold it spun as easily as it should, slight resistance but easy to turn.

 

The only thing I could think of is there were a couple of lifters that were a little harder to remove, not stupid, could still take them out by hand without tools, but they didn't just fall out either.

 

So whilst it's apart ill double check everything, probably get a new cam, cam chain and tensioner and shim the oil pump spring.

You talked about taking the flywheel off to fit it on the engine stand & i presume you took it off, so i would say its the flywheel is the culprit, it must have been dragging on something, possibly the wrong flywheel ..

 

The lifter's you mentioned would not be the cause especially since they fell out themselves proves they are not that seized & without the head on nothing is pushing them back, so once pushed up if they were seized the motor would be free to turn in that spot ..

Edited February 2, 201511 yr by lexsmaz