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need to get the bell housing and flywheel off of a 53 engine that is seized and will not rotate to use on the replacement engine. Need to reuse them so they cannot be damaged. Any suggestions?

Remove them along with the crankshaft. Once they are off the engine, you can rotate the bellhousing to remove the clutch and flywheel. Or you could probably just loosen the mains to free up the engine so it will rotate.

Or you could torch cut,the crankshaft, or use a cutoff wheel,which will take a while, close to the rear main, (or in the rear of #6 Rod journel) where the crankshaft is smaller. then remove the rear main bearing cap and then the flywheel and stub crank shaft should rotate and allow you to remove it.
I have tried to remove the rods and pistons from a really seized 235 and it can be diffucult since the crankshaft won't rotate, some of the rod caps are very hard to remove on an engine where the pistons are seized to the cylinder walls. I was not able to save the rods or the crankshaft, the only thing I saved was the flywheel, and the camshaft. Even the lifters were seized. I didn't see whether the engine was one with a manual transmission or a powerglide.