Thanks for all of the advice and suggestions.
Taking a suggestion that I found on a Triumph web site, I used a 1-1 1/8"
expansion plug. I inserted the plug into the spacer tube and tightened the
nut to expand the plug. I was then able to pull the tube, accumulator
cylinder, and piston all in one piece by pulling on the expansion plug nut
with a pair of vice grips.
Somehow the piston had come out far enough that one piston ring was out of
the bore. I see what you all meant about the rings being very delicate.
I will know in another day or so, after I get everything back together,
whether replacing the o-ring solves my problem.
Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB
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