I buy a 01 Rio for cheap with a locked up motor.
I pull the head off and find every exhaust valve head broken off. Yep this motor is a goner!
I get on the phone and get wacky quotes from some for $1000 for a used motor. Screw that! One place has one for $500 but they cant make it run. It has OK compression so I tell them pull it and I'll be back tomorrow.
SOoo I get this motor home from the junkyard. It has a hard spot as I turn it over.
I pull the head. OK its not a cam getting stuck. But I do find one bent intake valve
I pull the oil pump. That doesn't fix it either.
I flip it upside down and wonder if the weenies dropped it and the crank is bent. I loosen the rear cap. No change
Then I see where the interference might be. Of course by this time only about 12 bolts separate a COMPLETELY diassembled motor from the assembled one I came home with!!!!
I pop off the #1 rod cap and push the piston out. Ahhh now it spins free!! SEVERE bend in #1 rod! Arrrgh! All that disassembly and aggravation on a motor that SHOULD have run.
Oh well.
What are odds of having maybe ONE good rod from the other motor???
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-SP