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I picked up a RD-19 35hp Johnson awhile back for a parts motor. It had the same problem, but I was looking for another lower unit. The flywheel was stuck, cleaned out the mouse nests, starter froze up, so proceeded to take lower unit off, got bolts off, shift linkage. Lower unit didn’t fall off, so I used my dead blow hammer to lightly tap unit off, finally the lower unit let loose, and at the same time the motor turned over and freed itself. I hooked up battery cables to starter, cylinders still showed good compression. It still baffles me, the only thing I can figure out is, the motor stopped for whatever reason in gear, in the compression stroke, caused from out of fuel, possible overheated, but didn’t look like it was to me. Obviously, the motor was shut off in gear for whatever reason, and was never touched again, for storage?. It was a fun learning experience, ended up with a good parts motor. Sometimes it pays to start on next step of motor that will need attention, water pump inspection, or whatever. It surprised me.
Gene.