I fear that soon I will be removing the intake and the head to check out the lifters in more detail, and I really don't have the interest for it. If it comes to that, the car may just be sold or the engine will come out and go back onto a stand and be rebuilt again. I'm unhappy with an automatic transmission behind it anyway.
Wow! What happens if the paint gets scratched? Totalled? If the plugs are wet, change them. Do a compression test on all cylinders. Check the inside of the distributor crack for signs of arcing between terminals--what do you have for an ignition system? And you don't have to remove the heads to pull the lifters.
