Help! Newly renovated engine got stuck while cranking it...

I'd feel a lot better about it if it freed up with the oil in the cylinders first.
Then you could go about getting it started and timed.

Be aware that it will probably be a little tighter stuck when you get back to it.

Oil it good and try to ease it back and forth a bit.

Tocca said

That might be the thing we try, but the problem is that we never got it to start. I think we dialed in the ignition timing just as it started to get stuck, but I can't be sure.

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