Lady luck decided to kick me in the nu**!
I was about to remove the trans and decided to do a quick compression test since this will be the only chance I get on this engine. I used a large agm odyssey battery I have in my garage with my heavy duty jumper cables and cylinder 1 got to 120psi then it stopped. I tried it again and all I got was a loud click. I switched starters with the one in my all-trac and still just a loud click so I switched power sources to one of my cars with the engine running and still nothing. It tried to turn the crank pulley with a large socket wrench but it was stuck.
I then tried to turn it the opposite way and it worked but then got stuck again before it makes the full rotation :shoots:
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I know I didn't drop anything into the throttle body and I have the transmission in neutral and even tried it in gear with the same results. I removed the starter and looked inside the bell housing while my son turned the engine by hand until it got stuck again in both directions but I couldn't see anything wrong or loose.
I contacted the seller through Ebay and called the seller's number and they were already closed. Fortunately they replied to my ebay message and asked for a video.
What do you guys think it can be? I'm guessing a stuck valve. I had this happen with a Ford 5.0 mustang engine that sat for years and it was a stuck valve.