ok so i dropped the oil pan and everything looks fine from underneath. actually it looks really good
still very clean. i also took off the valve covers. there appears to still be a valve inside every spring, but on two of the valves there is some kind of sleeve or maybe a seal that is around the stem of the valve (inside the spring) and it is loose.
it can slide up and down. took the rocker arms off as well. then pulled all the plugs again and tried to turn it over by hand. it would turn just a little and then it would get stuck. then i could turn it a little backwards but then it would stop again. Also i can see that the timing chain is still on the crank sproket, but i cant see up to the cam sprocket. So it could still be a broken piece of the oil pump stopping it i guess. ill take off the front cover to see that and the rest of the timing set today. also a valve could have broken and the shaft could still be in position but the head? or whatever the actual valve part is called could be broken off, but there would have to be two of them broken to stop it from moving both ways i think. im still wondering if it could be something in the transmission broken. cause even though its in park or neutral the flywheel is still attached to the transmission so part of the transmission has to be spinning and so there could be something wrong there. So this is where i am so far. I have to get this thing running before august 10th when i go back to school
