Engine problems

[donsrno1]

More fun with the 16v. Over the last few days the valver has been refusing to start and everytime I turn the key the solenoid clicks on the starter but thats it. Anyway I tried loads of s**t and it still wouldn't work so today tried to turn the engine over by hand incase the unthinkable had happened. Anyway, it took a lot of force on a 0.5 metre breaker bar on the crank pulley to turn it over. After I got it going round it went fine till the same point on the next revolution where again I needed to put in a lot of force to turn it. After turning it over a few times it was going fairly smoothly but I though I had best check the oil etc as something was clearly far from right. When I check the oil level it was shown as being 2cm above the max on the dipstick, even though it was shown as just below the max a few days ago. I then removed each spark plug and shone a torch in to see the condition of the pistons to find that 3 looked as you would expect and one (no.3 cylinder) looked oily or watery (just looked wet on the surface of the piston).

As you can imagine I am mightily pissed off about this as it looks as though I have a fucked engine. Anyone got any ideas what exactly might have happend??? I'm guessing at the minute I am probably going to be looking at a new engine needed but amn't really too sure what I'll do.

Thanks.

 

[16v_jon]

before it was broke how much oil did it use?
could be the rings..... compression test isn't much start with that

 

[donsrno1]

don't know about oil use mate, only bought it a few weeks ago with a knackered gearbox and after putting in a new clutch and box this is the last thing I need - I've not even had a chance to drive it properly yet tbh.

I should have said before that it's been suggested already that chances are it's the head gasket,cracked head or cracked block. I'm just totally confused by it tbh. It must be water getting into the oil in order to push the level up like that as it was sitting just below the max before now. What I was wondering is whether it could be that there was a load of water in no.3 cylinder and when I turned it by hand with some force I forced this water down into the sump??

 

[16v_jon]

get a compression test
if you need to drive it change the oil and water plus some block sealer (cheaper than a gasket change)
if you have forced water was in the cylinder and you turned the engine over it wouldnt have gone into the sump