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Princess Valiant said
What a busy weekend. I have a 74 318 out of my 74 duster but it's trashed, had water in it and two cylinders are beyond saving.

So i found a 77 318 block with almost no ridge, very low miles and clean block.

So i spent some time power washing the 77 block and stripping down the 74 block so i can use the crank and main caps and and pretty much everything except the block to transfer to the good 77 block.

Wasn't easy getting the crank out of a motor that is locked solid. I got 4 pistons out and one is loose but 3 are there to stay as if someone welded them in.

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I had a similar issue with my numbers 383 for the GTS. 2 pistons locked solid. But obviously i need to save the block. Same as you, I rolled the crank out of it (barely). Then I had to pound the locked pistons out from the backside with a 2in Iron pipe and a sledgehammer. Was able to bore the block .030 over.....