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If it’s a sixties engine, you mean a 9.8, right? If you figure out how to do it without pulling the power head, let me know! I have tried that route a few times in my life but couldn’t do it. The temptation is to pry on things to get enough clearance; but I have never been able to make it work. It risks breaking MORE parts and is just unnecessarily frustrating. I feel the easiest, proper way is to pull the power head and the lower pan. Then, that broken part is wide open. You’ll need two gaskets to reassemble. It really is very easy to do in principle, if yours is a 100% fresh water motor. The hardest part is cleaning off those old, super-tough gaskets.
Long live American manufacturing!