I got the piston out, June 9, 2001. Dirt and grime were caked inside the water hopper and around the cooling jacket. It was almost as hard as a rock. No way to clean it out without removing the cylinder sleeve. Took a lot of pounding to get it out, but I finally did on July 1, 2001.
Cylinder is in pretty good shape.
July 18, 2001. The left picture is of some of the parts that I have removed and a few that I have cleaned up. The right picture shows the welds. The welds look a lot bigger than the cracks actually were. Arthur Carter did the welding for me.