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Sounds like you have lucked out!!

Well is it stuck? do not take my word alone,

Sorry Tobash, all the Marvel Mystery oil in the world would not have fixed the engine I showed above and I am willing to bet this one is in no better shape. It takes a LONG time to get that much water into an engine, unless someone used a hose and filled it a week or so before he picked it up...

Have you tried to turn the engine, that is a lot more than a "couple quarts" . Also where are you going to "scope" it, the pre-cups will prevent you from seeing squat.

The problem with the block being full of water it you have NO IDEA what other damage has been done, main and rod journals? camshaft? I would never trust an engine that has been full of water, Mogman out!

You should always replace a filter with an unknown history, filters are cheap, engines are not, I always fill the filter with oil even though this filter location is not designed correctly IMHO you still will not lose as much as you put into it when installing it.

You did not say if the intake was off, if it was the motor is toast as these have sat for so long between the time they last worked on it to the time it is turned over to DRMO to the time they actually list it to the time you actually take possession is usually several years, I did not have to...

If it had oil in it it could easily fill to the top of the dipstick, water is heavier than oil so it could "push" the oil up higher than the place where the water was getting in, and yes when water gets into the combustion chambers it goes past the rings, I would not bother going through all the...

I tend to agree with NDT, first thing is determin if the motor is stuck