So update time! I had some good time to work on the car the past couple days and made a bit more progress. First was tackling the drivers seat, luckily the jump boxes just needed a charge so I was able to move it forward and pull the bolts out finally.
Next I moved on to putting the car on jack stands, pulling the front facia off, and draining the fluids.
When I went to drain the radiator not a whole lot came out, I mean like almost nothing, and what did come out was just plain rusty water.
I found where all the fluid was when pure water started to flow out of the oil pan and then finally turned into that nasty sludge of oil. So I'm pretty sure this car has a blown head gasket, or potentially something worse.
I pulled the thermostat housing off and to my surprise and horror there wasn't even a thermostat. I was graced with a ton of crusty oxidized flakes of pure hatred from the previous owner. This definitely doesn't look good and is putting a bit of worry for the state of the block and the heads.
I'm worried that the previous owner was leaking water into the cylinders from the head gasket and overheated the car so he pulled the thermostat and just kept putting pure water into the rad. I'm pretty sure the engine might be hydro-locked at this point so I'm really going to have to try and work those pistons out. I might have to get the block magnafluxed to see if its got cracks in it as well and check the heads for warpage/cracks. If the block is good I'm for sure gonna have to have it acid dipped. There was so much crude in the cooling lines so I'm sure all the passages are caked. Luckily I'm not out much even if the block and heads are toast since I still have the trans, harness, accessories, cv axles, etc. etc.
