Originally posted by Rudeboy
Check the movement of the rod on the wrist pin... if it doesn't slide all the way to one side for one reason or another (gummed up oil for instance) you can have a hard time getting it apart.
If the rod is able to move all the way it should be no problem, because this is also the way the engine was assembled...
Ok, that was probably it - the rod might have been not going all the way to one side. it sure doesn't now, now that it's been bent up from my dumb-butt prying, but it might have been that way all along.
Innards were all toast on the motor anyway due to corrosion so it didn't really matter.
sure is a fantastic running motor, though, for sure and awsome power/weight ratio..
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