Doing engine swap number 3

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Just venting some frustration here. Over the weekend the engine in my burb gave me the signs that it's time to be replaced. Over the last 2 months or so it was burning oil pretty bad...close to 5 quarts in 2 weeks...and it was losing power. Saturday I took my daughter fishing and when we get in to town I notice smoke is coming out from under the hood. So I pull in to a parking lot to check things out and smoke is coming out the fill port for the oil and the oil dipstick tube. The burb gets us to the lake and back ok but when we were going up hills it sure left a nice trail of smoke. I was hoping this engine would last until tax return time next year because I was wanting to buy a millitary surplus 6.5 turbo diesel. Fortunately, I have 2 other 6.2L engines to choose from, one is in my shortbed and the other is sitting in my shop. I'm hoping to use the one in my shop but I remember the PO told me he thinks it either has a cracked block or a bad freeze plug...I'll be checking that tomorrow.

On a side note my daughter and I had fun fishing we didn't catch anything big enough to eat but she did catch a couple small bass and I caught a blue gill.