Quote: I stil think you need to identify the issue you have now before you through an upper end at it. If you don't fix it, it may be there after all the money and effort.
As much of a pain as it is, I will do a compression test when it warms up a little. 1°F here in DC Metro today! Crazy. I will also change oil and cut open filter to see if there are any chunks from when I had the knocking sound. It ran the same before that incident so I don't think that was the issue, although I never found out what it was. Maybe I am better off taking a chance on one of these nice used motors on Moparts. There seem to be a few 440s that would be nice. Ok, kidding, but it may be in the cards some day.
