My son and I get to rebuild our first engine. The 360 in his Matador is having major problems. Driving home the other day he had a dramatic loss of power and starting leaking and burning a lot of oil. He had to add several quarts of oil to get home. The motor now has a lot of blow-by. It popped off the oil fill cap several times. We did a compression test yesterday. Most of the cylinders are about 90 lbs. One was 35, and one was 0. Anyone have suggestions on a plan of attack? I'm thinking of pulling the motor, and pulling the head on the side with the dead cylinder. I'm thinking I should be able to tell if it's the valves or the piston. Is there a better way to do this? We picked up a 304 from a wrecked Javelin that we plan to put in temporarily. This is from a car that we know was running before it was wrecked. Is there anything we should check before we install the motor? I've been thinking that we could run a crude compression by turning the motor by hand. This should alert us to any major problems. Todd _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list or go to http://www.amc-list.com