In this week's episode of bore or scrap it.

JDMopar said
I agree with RRR about putting an eyeball on your cousins method. If I've got a motor that is stuck tighter than a drum like that, I spray the cylinders down with PB Blaster, and let it set a while. If it still won't budge, I will put a short piece of a 2 x 4 in each cylinder, and give it a whack to shock the stuck rings loose. No need to keep frailing on it. Always make sure to take the timing chain off beforehand too. I took a 225 apart for a little science project I'm working on, and it was stuck bad. Took the chain off and it rolled over. I like to have never got the cam beat out of that thing!

Yea, maybe it's my fault, he doesn't have a method, I told him to knock the **** out of the piston to get it out, so he did. He has bench pressed me draped over the weights before so I should have known there is a such thing as too much on engine parts.

I still have a 360 to unlock and I see those as being as valuable as 340s, so that's one I'm going to watch real close.

As far as the numbers blocks, the duster is running great with a 360 replacement so i don't NEED the 318 but as you suggested clean it up and keep it handy.