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I let it soak for a week in Marvel Mystery Oil, but I know the ATF and acetone was shown to work best by popular mechanics back in the day. Thanks for the suggestion. I will give that a shot. The pistons appear to be at the top of the stroke. If the ATF/acetone doesn't work, I might make a press too...

Thanks so much for verifying my bike info.

I started investigating, and unfortunately my pistons are frozen solid to the cylinders. I guess I will be splitting the case next.

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Any advice, or things to look out for before I split the case?

I inherited a basket case bike from an uncle recently. I'm glad I found this forum, looks like a wealth of knowledge here. I'm at the point of deciding if I want to try and restore, sell, or part out this bike. I threw as much of the bike back together as I could to try to get an inventory of parts ...