Got the cylinder out following basically what I thought above. Ran into two problems that made the job much longer than it should have been. The top of the cylinder where it meets the fork carriage was seized. Improvised a large pickle fork out of some wood splitting wedges and a piece of angle iron. Then one of the nuts for the chain was seized. After trying for a long while we finally realized all we had to do was remove a pin. Once the cylinder was out of the machine I then cut the nut off and I'll replace both with new as they are nylon lock nuts.
If you are board and want to watch amature hour you can search youtube for "greg9504 hyster" and that should bring up the video of removing it.
Dropped it off at a place here in Ottawa that specializes in cylinder rebuilding, they can even redo the chrome if needed.
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