Alec Moody wrote:
I might have been - Yesterday I put a new battery in the car since the last one died when we let the car sit for 2 months. Car wouldn't turn over with the new battery. Then it wouldn't turn over when trying to push it down a hill in gear. Pulled the plugs to check for a cylinder for a fuel, nothing in the cylinders. We got it rolling pretty good today and tried to push start it but the engine won't turn over.
The thing ran when I parked it and it sat for about two months during the summer. Trying to wrap my head around how the engine could have seized up in that time.
I am going to mess around with the car a little more and then give up and sell it as a project for someone else.
The only thing I could think of would be rust in the bores, could you see into the cylinders at all? Maybe somebody has a bore scope you could use. If they rusted up then some marvel mystery oil squirted in there or some ATF might help unstick them. Of course if they rusted up that bad some compression would likely be lost. It seems unlikely a engine that was running would rust up just sitting for a couple months though.
That's a pretty crappy surprise to find though for sure after it sitting for a bit. I've gotten cars that sat for years to run again that sat in barns without even really having to try too hard.
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