yes that's one of a wide range of dampers you might find on a 283 - with the plugs out if yer careful a big pipe wrench will turn it, or put 2 bolts in holes on opposite sides and use a bar between them - can also use the point of a crowbar prying from the block against the flywheel teeth, anyway you do it if it's really free it'll turn easily

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics