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marleymon · 12-02-2007, 01:15 AM

This happened on mine too. I ended up cracking mine leaving the cylinder frozen in there. The impellar was the oem plastic type and broke too. Luckily the pieces flushed right out. I was able to piece it together to know I had them all.
As for the outer housing still stuck, I ran to the depot and bought a hand held hack saw. Two carefull cuts (10 minutes total w/ radiator removed) and I was set.

So, if your's is cracking try pb blaster....but it might be too late.

josh

12-02-2007, 01:15 AM	#3
marleymon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 867 iTrader: (2) Photo Gallery	This happened on mine too. I ended up cracking mine leaving the cylinder frozen in there. The impellar was the oem plastic type and broke too. Luckily the pieces flushed right out. I was able to piece it together to know I had them all. As for the outer housing still stuck, I ran to the depot and bought a hand held hack saw. Two carefull cuts (10 minutes total w/ radiator removed) and I was set. So, if your's is cracking try pb blaster....but it might be too late. josh __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]