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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