Time for some cleanin'

After heating and cooling the cylinder with the piston stuck in it several time and letting it soak several days, nothing, not a tiny move. So it ended where it should have been in the first place, the 20 ton press!

After using some granular sugar and a bearing to dissipate the force, and cranking carefully, the big bang happened and the piston came out, voila!

And it's not pretty! You can see from the picture that the engine likely seized while running because of how it seems scratched and bent. Here it is after a good cleaning:

Luckily the cylinder is not damaged and good honing with some gas mix and fine grit sandpaper on a pvc pipe will do the trick.

Time for some bead blasting for the other parts to clean them up and get them ready for re-assembling! First the crank case