Thanks for that tip, i'll have to consider that. I'm at school right now so i've been going home on the weekends to work on it.
Will that work if it won't crank at all? We managed to get a ton of coolant out by sucking it out with a small tube, but like i said before, when we went to start it, nothing but a quick grind sound and it would stop.
I reused the upper intake, and if you're talking about the gasket also I reused that too.