318 LA rebuild after losing a valve seat

nm9stheham said

See if you can push the car uphill and push the chocks in tight to keep it from rolling back against the pawl. Nothing new about pawls being harder to pull out if the car rolls against them. If the issue is the get the engine in, then I'd probably pull the driveshaft and roll it and get to the pawl later...

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Thanks, I'll do that.

Engine is in! I'm just connecting things and putting everything back together at this point. I wish my garage was big enough (or not so cluttered) that I could just leave the car there without half of it sticking out. That's why I need to move it into the driveway at the end of each day.