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Re: [Spridgets] did a little more work on my project car

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] did a little more work on my project car
From: BJNoSHOV8 <bjshov8@tx.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:27:46 -0500
I've worked on car engines for a long time and I don't recall an engine 
with a normal solid block where the pistons would come out the bottom.  
I was probably not using a very accurate description in previous 
emails.  In general to remove pistons you take the pan off, remove the 
rod cap and hammer on the bottom of the piston with the end of a wooden 
rod like a hammer handle until the piston comes out the top of the cylinder.

I wasn't quite to that point yet- my pistons are frozen in the cylinders 
and my first attempts at loosening them were to soak the tops of the 
pistons in PB Blaster for days and then beat on the tops of the pistons 
one at a time with a piece of wood and a big hammer.  If I had loosened 
the pistons then I could rotate the engine and check the conditions of 
the various cylinders.  Not having success with loosening pistons from 
the top, the next step was to pull the pan off and try to loosen the 
pistons by beating on the bottoms of them.

So I was trying to loosen the pistons from the bottom, but I would not 
have been pulling them out the bottom.


> Not that I ever want to do this but wouldn't the crank be in the way of
> getting out the pistons from the bottom?
>
> I'm just asking, not ever done it before.
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