318 timing chain.....and why the engine should come out.

glhx said
With this engine ....I couldn’t ....not take it down. It was so dirty inside and clogged up that all that garbage would have been really hard to get out otherwise. It would have dislodged all the sludge and hardened fuel particles and made it way worse rather quickly. I do regret going now this far into it but at least I know where it stands and what’s been done to it for some peace of mind.

OK, makes sense. I could stand some some smoke for 200 miles per year LOL. I had a '71 Toyota Celica that burned a qt of oil every 100 miles..... did not smoke while cruising.....just slowly burned the oil out. Ran it for a couple of years and then gave it to my sister-in-law to commute 60 miles per day to college for a couple of years LOL