Update,
Got the 216 freed up and spinning today! I can see honing crosshatches on the cylinders. It has a recent head gasket and the engine isn't covered in road grime and is painted "rebuild red".
Going to take off the bell housing and put it on an engine stand tomorrow and take off the oil pan to see what all the rainwater that was in it did.
Here is how I got it freed up.
Removed head.
Removed lifters by using penetrating oil, propane torch. The torch was used numerous days in a row hoping that several heating and cooling cycles would free them up. It did.
Poured acetone in each cylinder just to get something that would creep in there. It did.
Followed the acetone with transmission fluid. It creeped past all but 2 cylinders.
For the 2 cylinders that the transmission fluid wouldn't get trough, I hit the transmission pooled up on the pistons with the propane torch until it reached its flashing point. Boiled in oil the way I saw it.
Then I just gave up on it for a week.
Finally got it to turn with a pry bar on the flywheel teeth. Winning!
Last edited by 52Carl; 10/20/2024 11:48 PM.
