Motor tear down Options

[lsintampa]

75 914/4 2.0 d-jet

Boring story, but it looks like I need to get into my motor. The motor came with the car and was nice and clean. All parts that could be powder coated were, it was like new looking. It also had valves re-adjusted, leak tested (OK), and internal probes showed it to be very clean (info from PO).

It sat on my garage floor for 5 months while I tended to the car's other needs. I did drop some oil into each cylinder before I put the plugs in. But the fuel feeder tubes and inlet ports were wide open for a while. But plugged with rags (noted).

Anyway now that I'm finally getting around to trying to start it, the motor is all but seized up. It turns, but it is really hard to move and when it does, it sounds raspy like it's grinding something or scraping something. Hard to explain but it don't sound good.

So, I'm starting all over and I'm going to drop that motor back out and get into it. It is the ONLY way that I will know for sure what I'm dealing with.

Thanks for everyone that's helped along the way. I'm sure once I get into this motor, I'll be looking for help once again.

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[ThePaintedMan]

Roger, I did some more reading and found out a little more on your background and how you came about owning the car. I apologize if I sounded like I didn't think you knew your stuff. It's been my own personal experience with previous owners that makes me so weary of other people's work, so again, I apologize.

However, if you could share what you know about the flywheel, clutch and pressure plate history, that would probably help us. Is it safe to assume when you had the car it wasn't in operating condition? I.e., the engine/trans combo was already split apart?