Last day off so ran out to the engine to try to make some more progress, hoping to take more pieces off to lighten it up and then get it back home for complete disassembly before taking it into the machine shop.

Started by tearing the head off hoping that things weren't going to be too bad, and this is what I found.

The block didnt seem to be too bad, with just the one piston looking rusted.

I am not expert but the head looks like it would take some serious clean up to make it work. Luckily this isn't the head that is planned to sit atop the block.

After rolling the engine over and wedging it between whatever I could find the oil pan was removed and what was found made me smile. Everything looks pretty clean with no signs of rust with the naked eye.

So the oil pan went back on and I started cleaning up for the drive home, going to get a friend to come help me haul this thing home next set of days off so wrapped everything up in large plastic bags and brought home what I could.

But before wrapping up the block I couldn't help but take a closer look at that one rusty looking piston. Diving my finger into the crud the piston moved a little downwards and all the crud started to come off VERY easily. After wiping everything off the cylinder walls look to be in good shape and the piston seemed to be moving around pretty easily.

Deciding to give it a try I grabbed the torque converter and moved it back and forth, and low and behold all the pistons moved with NO EFFORT at all. Cant wait to get this thing into the machine shop, and see just how much has to be done to it. When the PO said that he thought the engine was seized I had convinced myself that it would have to be a complete rebuild, but maybe it won't have to be that extensive.