Engine rebuild?

Patton wrote:

KZ1000inaus wrote:

Street Fighter LTD wrote: No piston ring compressor needed. Shop manual will see you thru install, NOTE; Gap rings then Make sure rings are indexed correctly so end gaps are not all at same point.

The Kwacker shop manual i have says use a ring compressor!
Any advice on installing the barrels without one?

All parts have arrived so i have a good few hours/days ahead of me in the garage !!

To help work them in by hand, could use chop-sticks, Popsicle sticks, wooden ice-cream spoons, or tongue depressors.

Others may use a strip of metal strap held in position tightly around the rings with a zip-tie, which assembly slides down as the piston enters the cylinder sleeve.

Good Fortune!

i found using my freshly manufactured wooden piston holder (as described in Clymer manual, pic attached) and finger nails did the trick... twice as the first time i got the barrels on i realised i forgotten the orange seals underneath each barrel and had to pull them off again .. grrrrrr

rebuilt the engine, fitted the new V&H pipe, set floats, put everything back together.
First touch of the start button and she fired up.
I'm a very happy man.

The pipe sounds awesome and she's running very sweet.

Gonna clean her up tomorrow and take some pics to post up.

Thanks for all your help and advice guys.

I can hear you smiling from here; congrats! Ed

See,,,That wasnt so hard

Good Job, Enjoy