so the other day I was taking out my crank and noticed I needed to get my rod resurfaced. As I'm reading on how/where to get it done I see my room mate remove the piston through the bottom of the engine. Now for those who don't know the crank webbing is in the way so there is no way to get it out. My problem now is, I can't compress the piston rings to get it through the cylinder. Does anyone have an idea on how I can fix this problem? Thanks guys

 

So the piston is stuck in the bottom of the block? That sucks

 

yeah right below the cylinder head and above the webbing

 

Wait what? Not sure what you mean by webbing

 

Punch ur roommate

 

ok so it looks like this (l l) that is a bottom view the piston won't come out the bottom

 

I'm with carstedt. Who the **** thinks of pulling pistons out the bottom? Best advice I can give is if the piston is out of the cylinder, take the rings off and then carefully push it back up through. That probably won't be easy with the limited amount of space

 

Try and break the rings off without damaging anything?

 

yeah that was gonna be my next bet, it's gonna be a B*#% to get those things off...and what sucks is I have the head off, so all the pistons that I don't need out are extremely accessible now

 

Can you get a ring spreader in there to take the rings off without breaking them?

 

Are you reusing the pistons?

 

Can u take sum pics? Still confused here on "webbing"

 

He means the crank girdle. Thats what he means.

 

so by some will of god, my roommate got the mothers back in. Don't ask me how, but it's done. All the rings are fine, the cylinder wall is fine, I don't know how the #*$% he did this

 

holy f

 

So you are going to trust that someone stupid enough to push the pistons out the bottom got them back in without breaking something and put the car back together that way?

 

Lullies.

 

well it's not put back together. Now I have to take the piston out the top to get the rod resurfaced. and no I would not trust him to put the engine back together

 

Ok just checking lol