Ok heres the story. Car is a 1984 500 SEL with 199,000 miles. Bought
the car, started and ran perfectly for 2 days. It has been blistering
cold over here in michigan latley (0 degrees and negative 10
windchills). The night before, I removed the instrument cluster to
replace the bulbs, and had the car running while I did this inside. I
went outside and the car was running fine, so I put the gauges back in
and went to sleep. Next morning, went to start the car, and got
nothing but a click from the starter. The car will not turn over. I
have tried hitting it with a hammer, heating it up, still nothing.
Today I noticed that the anti-freeze tank wasnt showing any level as
well. I added some and then tried to crank again, nothing. I tried
cranking the engine by had with a socket, but it was from a nut that
was easily accessible from the top of the engine, it would turn for a
little then stop, because the belt would slip. Im at a loss of what to
do on this. Do you think the engine over heated and seized, or the
starter is bad