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I'm sure everybody has had those fragile little tube-type dowel pins get stuck at some point and resorted to pliers or vice grips to get them out (usually resulting in a chewed up and/or warped pin). I recently had a dowel pin stuck in my cylinder head on my 93 DX and I had a moment of ingenuity. The best part, all you need is stuff you'd normally be using at the time anyway: Set of vice grips (preferably small), a 3/8" drive socket extension, and some masking or electrical tape.

All you do is wrap some tape around the outside of the extension until it's a tight fit into the middle of the dowel pin. Then twist the extension into the dowel pin until it's in as far as it will go. Then you take your vice grips and lock onto the dowel pin. You can lock on as tight as you want because the extension prevents it from warping too much. Then simply twist the pin out. If you like, you can take a short section of old rubber hose and cut one side so it's a 'C' shape and put that inside the vice jaws to further prevent any chewing or burring of the dowel pin. Some pics included below. Hope this helps somebody!