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I spent all day yesterday removing the plugs, and prepping the car so when my professional mechanic friend came to help me with the distributor install and alignment, we could first crank the car over with no compression and get some oil flowing before tackling getting the distributor aligned, and all the rest that needed to be done to get the thing back running.

Well, the moment I hit the key to turn the motor over, I hear a "tink" my friend yelled HO! STOP! The dizzy aint spinning.

SO, what I have here now is my life savings wrapped up in a big chunk of metal shaped like a Pantera, with something jammed in the oil pump that is shearing the distributor drive gear pins.

My friend let me use his lift to change the oil, the car fired probably 3 or 4 cylinders before the pin snapped, never started, and it's turned into this big clusterf*ck that's tied up my friend's lift for a week or I don't even know how long, I'm getting the car towed home today, and then I don't know what I'm going to do.

I spent all my money on the car, can't pay a mechanic to ream me up the a$$, so I'm just going to get the car back into my garage and figure out what to do from there.

I feel like crying, but I'm too pissed off.