How to break loose the cylinder

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Tried the hammer and also a 5 foot fulcrum

This is for a car lift, so it doesn’t have an eye on one end. Do I need to apply heat?

I see you broke it with money.

Lesson learned but may not apply in this case: Always look for some kind of locking device under the seals on the piston end. For example, JCB uses a locking pin under the seals. It is a bear to get out but the piston will not move from the rod until you get this pin out. A friend of mine ruined one of his cylinders before he asked me how I got mine off.

As for the shop that did not appear to put the internal seals for the rod to cylinder seal in, they are hard unless you soften them and use one of the little three prong folding tools. I did a lot of them by hand and cut a few doing them with needle nose Vice Grips before somebody invented the little fold-it-up tool. Even with that tool, some are really tough.