Posted by dhermesc on December 18, 2019 at 12:13:48 from (24.248.193.103):
In Reply to: Stuck Piston Removal posted by super99 on December 17, 2019 at 17:24:53:
I have always looked at it this way.
If there is so much rust in a piston that it takes EXTREME steps to break it free - what condition will the piston and cylinder walls be in once its unfroze? Horribly pitted and scared pistons and cylinder walls mean you now have running engine that needs to be rebuilt instead of a nonrunning engine that needs to be rebuilt.
My father in law bought an old D17 with a froze up engine that supposedly hadn't run in a decade. The brakes were gone so they put it in gear and used the clutch and froze engine as the brakes - the engine broke free while they were unloading it. It fired up and burned some oil but not horrible. I look at some of these pictures of frozen engines and wonder just how well it would run even it they somehow broke free.
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