A wild thought.

If one could make a tool to safely "grab" the cylinder and there was enough
play between the case rods and cylinder.....

Could one grab the cylinder with the tool and apply a judicious rap to tool
to turn cylinder a little thus breaking the bond between cylinder and case?

Neil.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@northstate.net>wrote:

> Still  have not been able to  free two piston cylinders stuck in the block
> (2.1L).
>
>  Any tricks to non-destructively extricate them? I have tried several
> impact based motivation to no avail.
> TIA,
> Ken
>
> PS have you $een this?!?  http://tinyurl.com/bmggj93  $2,700 for P&Cs!
>

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Neil n

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