In every day a little rain must fall, today was one of those, we have been lucky so far but today we had a little set-back. Earlier in the week we went from our plan to just rebuild the engine to thinking that the car was in good enough shape that we would just start it and use it a little before getting in really deep. We pulled the radiator to send it out to be boiled out and checked, once it was out we had more room to mess around and decided to pull the plugs, put some lube in and try to turn her over by hand.
All of the plugs except the one in cylinder 3 came out relatively easily. We worked on number 3 for about 40 minutes, not wanting to break it off or damage the head, we finally broke it loose using a breaker bar and found the cylinder flooded with coolant. 
Next we shot some lube into the cylinders and made a serious attempt to turn it over by hand, but she was having none of it and would not budge. After some serious discussion we made the decision to not try a quick fix and decided that the motor was coming out. We spent the next 2 hours dismantling the radiator supports and bracing to prep for the engine removal. At the same time we removed the master cylinder and booster figuring that they were going to need to be rebuilt anyway, so might as well have them out of the way. In fact, everything in the engine compartment will be removed the whole area will be cleaned, painted and restored before anything goes back in, so it looks like it will be a while before we get to drive our new baby.….
