Thread: Can you remove and replace a piston from a 350 from the bottom

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Originally Posted by jerry clayton

You can get a piston out the bottom of #8
You can get it out of number 1 if bore is oversized and/or front main boss is trimmed a bit----

I'm thinking maybe you could get the eight out with the motor still in the truck but you would need to remove the crank as well, correct? The number one would be directly over the front differential on the shallow end of the pan. Could you conceivable get either piston back in without cracking a ring? I know this is more a question of feasibility but this absolutely wouldn't be the way you would want to work on a customers engine, right?