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Andrews book suggests around 25ft.lbs to rotate the assembly. I had the same problem you ran into...a fair bit more as nothing was "round". I disassembled entire engine to rehabilitate. One thing I found was, since I installed a hotter regrind cam I had to do a "blind" valve adjustment. My adjustable lifter nuts were not visible at the standard adjustment location...so after rotating it around and "sneaking up" on the adjustments many, many times..Ha ha! Low and behold everything loosened up to an acceptable drag. Now, keep in mind I hand scraped and fitted a different rear main bearing, and everything had assembly lube on it. My point being, would a few minutes spent turning it over by hand loosen things up a bit? Greg