Originally posted by DennyW
Ok, so you have the distributor out, all the lifters, fuel pump, and rod, hahaha, and you can turn the cam ? but it won't come out ? Those cam bearings are so soft, you can scrape them with your fingernail. If your sure there is nothing you forgot, install 2-3 bolts, and use a pry bar on each side, and pry easy, working side to side. Turn it a little and pry some more.

Exactly my thought Denny. A cam bearing can easily be damaged by nicking one with the cam as you pull it out. Then you have a problem if the engine is still in the car. There will no doubt be a high spot on the cam bearing that could spell trouble if not fixed or better yet replaced. That high spot could give you yet another reason to tear it down sometime down the road. Or in an extreme case you could end up with a gouge in the bearing that could cause oil pressure loss. I still would tear it apart, boil the block, get every speck of bad parts washed out of it and rebuild from scratch. Replace anything questionable in the process.