T-1000

Thanks everybody for the advice, but I think it's dead.

It's been soaking it with WD-40 in the cylinders with the spark plugs out over the past couple of days and I can't get the engine to turn over by hand.

The starter won't turn it either.

I actually broke a 3/8 drive ratchet with a cheater pipe trying to turn it over.

I'm thinking it cracked a ring and now pieces of it are jamming up the works...

I'm gonna try to turn it over again tonight with a 1/2" drive breaker bar and socket and see what happens.

Is there any way to turn the engine backwards? Maybe that would help...other than that I'm gonna have to start taking the engine apart.

aviator

If you've got a busted ring or bent con rod there's nothing you can do but start taking her apart and cleaning fixing as you go.
don't think you can turn the engine backwards without disconnecting the transmission...

yoterr

? ive had no probs turning it backwards, but i gots a 22r and a 5spd...

Matt16

Why can't the engine go backwards? I've left my truck in 3rd instead of first on a hill and it started slowly lurching backwards.

Tracey98277

yeah it turns backwards... i've done it with mine by hand. you take it out of gear, stick the ratchet on the crank and just turn the damn thing. but if it's not turning with the plugs out then you definitely seized something. if it was hydro locked and you took the plugs out, the water would escape through the plug holes on the compression stroke. if it hydro locked it probably bent a rod or ate the rings in the cylinders as the water tried to get by them.

space-junk

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time for a tear down... and we demand pics...