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The situation here is, I'm not a mechanic, and I do not rebuild engines. I can do smaller work; I can tinker with various parts of the car, and yes indeed I can tell you anything you would ever want to know about the radio, but rebuilding engines is not my thing. I had hoped that buying a new engine would eliminate my problems with it, but it turned out to be only the beginning.
The day will come when, someday, I can pay off my credit card bills from the really bad service that has been dealt me, and maybe I'll try again. But until then I'll try to just keep the car running, driving it only to a few car shows and not much else, and even THAT has become a challenge.
I'd love to have the ability to pull this engine here, put it on a stand here, and with some tutor-help, take it apart and find the real problems, put it back together properly. This is supposed to be a new motor, built from a 64 T-Bird 390 block that has been bored .030 over. It has blow-by. Compression is around 85-90, depending on cylinder. If I was to place a bet on the problem, I think the rings used were incorrect size. But I'll probably never know because when the day comes, it'll most likely be replaced by a long block.
Meanwhile it's at a shop in Port Charlotte. This guy builds race cars and street rods; he should be able to fix a leak.
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