After a week of soaking with no headway, and no drill press handy, went ahead and popped the bearing caps off as well as the connecting rod caps (is that the right name?) and used a rubber mallet to pound on the studs of the connecting rods. Had no trouble getting the studs down the the cap surface; which, I believe tells me the pistons are free. Still won't turn. Could the camshaft be frozen somehow? Tried to pull the cam gear off but I don't have the right kind of puller. Anyway, decided to find out if the engine in the truck would move so bought a 3/4" adapter and used the old breaker bar and it turns quite easily (don't know why I didn't try THAT BEFORE!!!!) (they say with old age, the mind is the first to go, but I don't agree; mind AND body go at the same time!!!!). So have decided on another plan of attack. I'll remove the crank out of the p/u, send it to be machined and hopefully that will take care of the DEEP THRUMP in the lower side of the engine when the oil pump went out. The engine probably only has 10-12k since the (Jasper I think) rebuild on it. And of that 10-12k about 3k since the oil pump crapped out. Or I could take the crank out of the engine that's on the stand, have it checked out and swap them. ANYBODIES thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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