[31 Woody]

I had tried a hammer and chisel too, but the gear was so beat up I was worried it would become an unrecoverable mangled mess. I was able to use the cam nut tool—just barely. FYI, the pan is off, the valve cover is off, the head is off, and the whole engine is coming out this weekend. I am going to do a major clean and check of everything while it is this far apart. Planning to lap the valves and set the lash as well as long as I don’t find something fatal. The good news is the pan was pretty clean of debris, but there was sludge the consistency of tar.