| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,885 | That engine looks pretty repairable to me. If it doesn't have any bits and pieces sticking out of the side, a repair is probably more feasible than trying to do a swap for an engine that you don't have any idea what's been done to it in the past. Try soaking the cylinders in a 50/50 mix of acetone and automatic transmission fluid for a few days (both on the shelf at Walmart) and see if you can free it up. I like to use the chisel shaped end of a shepherd's crook wrecking bar on the flywheel ring gear teeth at the bottom of the bell housing to persuade a stuck engine to move. I've resurrected quite a few engines that way, at least enough to run a little and see if they're worth rebuilding. My email address is in my profile information- - - -sending pictures that way works well. Jerry
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