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echo: oldcars
to: TOM COLLINS
from: LANDON ROBINSON
date: 1997-05-13 14:14:00
subject: Re: Help!

 -=> Quoting TOM COLLINS to LANDON ROBINSON <=-
 LR> I'm just separating them for scrap value, they came out of a seized
 LR> 307  engine. The pistons are scored and the rods are to short to use in
 TC> The  clean pistons brought more than the ones with the steel skirts.
 TC> If you have access to a large vise, use a socket just smaller than the
 TC> pin, and a heavy wall pipe just larger than the pin. Tighten and it
 TC> will  press out.
 TC> I made a pin press tool from a Cummins Diesel wrist pin. I trimmed a
 TC> small section so it would clear the ring land area.
 TC> Luck,
 TC> Tom
 TC> ... Happiness is a 62 Belair Sport Coupe with a 409/409hp engine.
 TC> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
 TC> -!- GOMail v2.0 [94-0125]
 TC>  ! Origin: H-E-B BBS  Help!!! get me out of here!!! (1:130/901)
No I do not have a vise, I'm getting one soon though. I've got something
of and idea floating in my head about making something like the tool used
to press U-joints in and out to get the wrist pins out of the pistons.
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