Just introducing myself

[Big Al]

Hi everyone , before I start asking all those stupid newbie questions I thought I would intro myself and tell you all how I got here.
It started about a month ago when my yougest brother started looking on ebay to purchase a ....HUMMER. After a couple of failed attempts to purchase a Hummer he finnally managed to "score" a "clean" 95 H1 Diesel from a "dealer in Arizona. We flew down to pay for and pick up the truck and we thought to drive the truck back to Alberta,Canada where we both live. We packed a small set of tools and lots of room on the credit cards fully expecting somekind of breakdown. After spending the night in Phoenix waiting for the paperwork to clear we did a once over on the truck and grabbed some supplies for the truck did some minor repairs to the truck and we were off. We made it as far as an hour East of a town called Kingman AZ (on the way to Vegas) about a 3 hr drive from our departure point where we had our first breakdown a water pump luckily we saw the temp rise and shut it down immediatly to figure out what was happenning. We managed to get a tow to Kingman $250 US where we spent the night. The repair was more than we were prepared for so we had to get a local shop to do the work $700 US. After paying for that repair we were on the road again and drove exactly 37 miles before breaking down again. We contacted the dealer we bought it from and he was VERY apologetic and told us he would tow the truck to Vegas and have it looked at telling us he would make it right BLAH BLAH BLAH. Well when we arrived in Vegas at Towbin Hummer the tow truck driver unloaded the truck and gave us the bill we told him that the dealer was taking care of the bill ....surprise !!! no he wasn't $375 US. It turned out the "dealer" turned out to be a liar and no help whatsoever. I agree we bought a used truck and the whole buyer beware thing but the dealer told us repeatedly that he would "make things right" so we were stranded not knowing quite what to do we had to leave the truck at Towbin Hummer (who treated us well enough) and flew back to the land of the beaver . We never were able to reach the dealer again after leaving voicemails he never returned our calls and never did "make things right". After waiting for 3 or 4 days to give him a chance we ended up having the truck flatdecked back home by a friend of my brothers. My brother tore into the truck to find that it had thrown a rod, closer inspection revealed that the motor had been torn into previously, hard to believe with a truck that only had 67000 miles on it rollback mabey??? It's been almost a month since this happend and we still havent heard from the dealer so far his only recourse has been to slam the guy on the feedback section on Ebay.

Well that's our story (the short version of it) (you wouldn't believe me if I told you the rest) I've got a couple of questions regarding the removeall of the motor (It looks like it comes out from the bottom?) but any adive you can offer would be appreciated.

Thanks
Big Al