There was coolant in the oil pan. I removed the head to see what was causing the leak, assuming it was the loose head nut.
i'm guessing all that rust was because the head nut was never any tighter than about 20 ftlbs, and between it and the head was a piece of metal strapping, so water got down there for the 40 years it sat outside.
I'm going to clean it up a lot better in the next couple days to look for obvious cracks. I'm hoping it's not necessary to have it magna-fluxed -- that's going to be a lot more work just to get the block in there. What would I have to do - would everything have to come out of the block to magna-flux it? Thanks for your suggestions.
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