Distributor advance springs

Well, she’s dead boys. I put everything back together yesterday. Flushed the gas-infused oil out and replaced with new oil. Added some power punch like my dad suggested. Started it up and ran it for a few minutes. She’s still knocking and it’s getting louder. It almost sounded like it may have been a pushrod for a bit so I turned it off and pulled the valve cover only to find nothing wrong in the valve train. I don’t know what’s broken at this point, but it’s something bad. So it’s gonna be parked at my brothers house again probably until next spring when I can take some time off work again to work on it. This is a very depressing time for me. I worked hard on this car for months this spring just to park it again so early in the year for the same reason I had to park it 3 years ago. At this time, I’m wondering if I’m going to just need a new engine. Last engine this happened to, the crank was completely destroyed in the rear end. This one is even sadder to me because it’s a cast crank motor, and I had big dreams for the build I was gonna do with it. But I suppose this way I’ll save some money over the winter…