Mo in NE Tx
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I tried all the miracle cures known to man to try to unstick this 2N. I even inserted a 3" socket in the cylinder and rigged a hydraulic jack to push it down, nothing happened, bent a head bolt. So, I removed the engine and, dropped the clutch, pressure plate and flywheel. Mounted engine on stand and removed the pan, entire inside of engine was clean as a whistle. Lightly tapped on the crank and it moved, "whoa" I said, put socket on crank and everything turned great. Something wrong with this picture, so I started looking around. I found inside the bell-housing a tooth from a starter bendix, double checked the starter and nothing missing. Tooth matched perfectly, I looked all over and only thing I can figure is that tooth had broke off some time in the past and fell into the bell housing. After setting over the winter, the previous owner must have tried to start it and that tooth had to have jammed the flywheel someway. I did not check the engine when I removed the flywheel, so do not know for sure. One little, 1 inch gear tooth sure caused a lot of effort and thought, I had worked with that engine for over 6 weeks trying to free it up, until I pulled it into the shop and removed the head last week. What a person can learn from experience!!!!! What is still food for thought is why the engine would not turn either direction.
