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Bruce, as usual, your Jensen restoration skills are impeccable. It's always a pleasure to see the results.

I Remove the snout and piston...

If you could share how you do this, I would be grateful. I have an old 25 waiting in the wings, and it was subjected at one time to some very amateur repair attempts:

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It almost looks like they took a vise grip pliers to it. When I restore this engine, I will need to replace that part. Is there a trick to removing it?

Thanks,
Paula