Engine part 1

Now, not long after I bought the Jeep, I "blew" the engine. Being 17 years old, I didn't know what this really meant, however I did know that I wanted to keep the old "blown" Engine for posterity. A replacement was found and $800 later the Jeep was running again... and the old 87 Engine started its 15 year rust cycle in my garage. I blew the second engine again years later on the Queensway in Ottawa, coming home from work at Nortel. Donny was with me when the thing started making an awful noise, so we pulled over. The old 258 was clanging away when finally a connecting rod busted out through the side of the block and started pissing oil. Now the engine is still running... finnaly it died and another $800 later I have the third engine in the Jeep. This one is a very fresh 1978 258 with only 80k on it. Came out of a Paser or something, apparently the old guy that owned the car only drove it back and forth to the liqueur store and on one such trip wrapped the thing around a pole. This was still 10 years ago, so even at that point the engine was 20 years old and the AMC blue engine enamel was still mostly intact. This is the Engine I removed from the frame in December. It was a little worse for ware sitting in the jeep for 8 years... ie siezed solid, however it is the most likely candidate for rebuilding. At this point I had little hope of rebuilding my old 87 engine but I was going to clean it up anyway and give the machine shop the choice of which block to re-build.