Ok, thanks....
Here are some pictures of the work I have been doing... I haven't seen this documented on here, at least with pics, so I thought it might help someone.
After pulling the cylinder and piston, soaking the needle bearing and all new parts, I prepped the new cylinder with some new exhaust studs that I got to avoid having to pull and use the old ones:
Then I set out to disable the oil injection pump. First I disconnected the oil line to the tank and drained the oil:
I need to get a cap for the tank outlet, and then I'll put just enough oil in the tank so that the light won't come on.
Once the oil was removed, then I pulled the oil pump out of the block. I then noticed that the gear assembly just came right out of the pump body, and on the end it looks like it threads into the pump. I think that the threads are the actual pump that pushes oil into the motor. You guys all probably new this, but, it was new info to me. I pulled the clip and the seal out as well... here are the pics of it disassembled, and with the caps on the ports:
Then I reinstalled the pump, and plugged off the intake manifold as well and made sure that the O-ring was in good shape and sealed nicely when installed:
Finally, I cleaned up the cylinder mounting surface of the block, with my brillo pad attachment... it came out nice.
