The Cutlass suffered some sort of damage caused by a valve seat on the head that came loose and dropped on top of the piston and eventually locked up the engine. It was not a broken cam as one idiot mechanic thought. Had these new owners taken my advice, they would have had a mechanic pull the heads and try to figure out what happened before deciding to drop a rebuilt engine in. As it turned out, all that was needed was a new head and a piston and they would have been up and running. As it turned out they put a rebuilt long block in from Autozone and that engine was bad also so the guy ended up pulling that one and putting in a second engine from Autozone. It appears that this fiasco is finally over, but a good lesson learned, always diagnois the problem fully before making a decision that may not be the right solution. A head change and piston replacement would have been less costly than the route they took for sure.
Does anyone know exactly how the 3.1 engine heads are made up, that allows a valve ring seat to break off and drop into the cylinder?
Thanks to all!