Tooljunkie,
It feels like we are twins sons from different mothers. Found a 1963 Valiant in the Seattle area. After much negotiating about the details for a transfer of ownership, I was lead to believe that the car ran so good, it would drive anywhere. The plan was buy a one way ticket and drive it back to Texas. Pick the car up about March 21 then got about 500 miles down the road and a rod started knocking.
Frantically looked for options, checked renting a truck, none available. Decided to find a place to park it and work on getting a transport setup. Transport prices were all over the place ranging from $950 to $3600. This is the great part of the story... Met a total stranger the rented covered car parking spots for $75 per month.
This total stranger helped me through four different transportation companies before a driver actually showed up. Would put a charger on the battery, waited around for drivers that did not show up and providing constant feedback about what was going on. The car waited here exactly one month before I found a driver that showed up and delivered the car for $1400.
The car finally arrived 29th of Apr. By May 1st, had the motor pulled. The driver from the machine shop just stopped by the house and taking the motor to Dallas to get rebuilt. Was quoted long block rebuild - $1485 - 3 week turn around time.
What killed the motor? I found a paper towel was sucked up into the oil pickup screen. Had the motor not gone bad, I would have left the motor alone. But with taking the motor out, many little things will get fixed like, leaky rear main seal, transmission seals leaking and replace freeze plugs that a leaking. Not to mention all and the nuts and bolt I found during the engine removal that were little more then finger tight or looser.
Good luck with the D100. Hopefully you will have much fun fixing and driving it!
Check out the high volume oil pump that came on the motor in the last picture.
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