Well, it's official (for sure this time), Vicki needs a new heart.

Went and had a compression test and cylinder leakage test done on the engine this morning and the results weren't good for cylinder three. In the compression test all cylinders had 153 to 157 PSI except cylinder three which read 40 PSI. When they performed the leakage test cylinder three didn't hold any air, or oil, at all. As they pumped air into the cylinder they clearly heard the oil bubbling by listening at the dipstick tube. That means that the valves are sealing fine, but either the rings are shot, there is something wrong with the piston, or there is something wrong with the cylinder itself. There's no way to really tell what is going on in there without tearing the engine down.

Could tear my engine down and try to re-build it, but who knows what we'll find once we get in there and that could keep the VX down longer than I can be without it. Might also find out that it isn't re-buildable at all, which would be even more time and money that I can't afford to spend. Guess it's time to start looking for a new engine.