Chris, have a machine shop do the rebuild, if any of them do them. I strip my stuff down to the long block and take it in. The rods get checked, cylinders honed, crankshaft polished, etc. It's about as straightforward as you can get, AND have some kind of warranty.

In the meanwhile, send the injectors off to be cleaned, replace the butt joints for the harness with soldered connections, de-carbon the intake manifold, all that stuff.

This is where the ol' cardboard and sharpies and digi photos for reassembly come into play once the engine is finished and ready for everything else to get slapped back together and dropped in. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I don't have a warm place to do overhauls either, but that's the route I go. With a junkyard engine, I still take the oil pan off first thing, as that tells you a lot about the condition of that engine in just doing so.

Blue smoke at startup is usually worn valve guides BTW.

Glad you've made it home; yeah, Cassier's been completely paved for awhile now from what I hear. Bums.