nope, the piston was at the bottom of its stroke and the backplate was already off. I can understand the piston breaking from pulling the back plate..seen guys do it and that would break the piston. the piston is fine. the sleeve was halfway up the case and broke. skeeve had already cleared the piston so that wasn't an issue. fit between the case and sleeve was a lil tight. I should have heated up the case, but had never seen a sleeve like this one. it's a lot thinner and ports are more open than my RB sleeves.

to give you an idea of size. My C6 sleeve doesn't fit in the Extech 24 case and my 24 piston doesn't fit in the C6 sleeve (obviously)....hence it's thinner...throw in a gorilla grip and voila.. to keep from

I've already been in touch w/ Chad and have a new piston/sleeve in the mail and no nothing in life is free. it's all good..it won't stop me from getting the new version.

here's the actual damage..