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So I recently saw a V8 engine for sale on Facebook for $100. Looked OK but I ignored it at the time.



Then they dropped the price to just $50 so I talked myself into going to get it. Safe to say this thing was in pretty rough shape, and the oil pan was held on with only 2 bolts.



Fortunately, someone stored it sort of on its side, which saved the oil pan from the usual dents/leaks that come when you set it on the pan directly on concrete. But that meant that a lot of water collected in the head.



While removing the other head revealed the most bizarre sights, these two nearest pistons having some unidentifiable yellowish crystals, and the next one down turning into a corundum mine with a snake skin.





Through several creative techniques we extracted the crankshaft, which is only 2 under and is in decent shape. The rest of the short block assembly was already fossilizing.



Likewise, the distributor was absolutely seized in place and no amount of hammering from above or below even cracked the rust.



I ended up with these parts. The cast metal on here except the crankshaft is getting scrapped unless someone wants it. The other stuff will be getting cleaned up and saved if it's reusable.



The block is currently getting rebuilt into new Toyota engines.