- Location
- South Florida
My fingertips are raw from compressing rings and it's still not on and I gave up for the day.
Engine in hull:1
Me: 0
Engine in hull:1
Me: 0
I hate installing cylinders
- Thread starter McDog
- Start date
- Location
- Atlanta
Gotta keep drinking until the pain stops. Then tomorrow figure out what else you did wrong. At least this is how things work in my garage.
Blue
Judging your cheapness
- Location
- St Cloud Florida
Its easier if you dont install those pesky rings. They slip rite together...
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- Location
- South Florida
Pilar Blonde Rum making it better right now and an ice pack for my old man elbow tendinitis. 
- Location
- South Florida
I actually played around with trying it but my zip ties were too narrow.
- Location
- Western NY
you could always use a piston ring compressor, or a make shift one like two beer cans with the zip ties around them if u don't have a real one
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
You have to have the fat HVAC sized zips.
- Location
- Rentz, GA
I was gonna say, the only time I have ever struggled with rings was when I done it in the hull.
Remind us how much time and aggravation you saved by not pulling the motor and setting it on the bench?
Remind us how much time and aggravation you saved by not pulling the motor and setting it on the bench?
- Location
- South Florida
A whole damn lot dammit.
- Location
- Rentz, GA
It's kinda like changing out a starter without pulling the motor. Sounds easier but is in fact a 2-3 hr job. Meanwhile, had you committed to just yanking the motor in the first place, it's probably a 20 minute job tops.
I did the 50 hr top end refresh on my SS865 in the hull and I would never bother with that again. I can literally have my engine out and on the bench in under 7 minutes.
I did the 50 hr top end refresh on my SS865 in the hull and I would never bother with that again. I can literally have my engine out and on the bench in under 7 minutes.
Quinc
Buy a Superjet
- Location
- California
Trying doing a zxi1100!! I managed after about 45 minutes. Thinking about after I bet it would be easy to hang the cases/crank upside down and have the cylinders upside down on the bench and lower the Pistons into the cylinders vs having to hold the cylinder up with one hand.
- Location
- Rentz, GA
I’ve done numerous top ends on my BB1050 in the hull. They had the long case studs which made it even worse.
If you had a small hoist you could would make things so much easier. You don’t really need it on the bench, just high enough out of the hull to sit it down on a piece of plywood or a couple 2x4’s.
If you had a small hoist you could would make things so much easier. You don’t really need it on the bench, just high enough out of the hull to sit it down on a piece of plywood or a couple 2x4’s.
- Location
- sask, canada
Unless you have a lay down style exhaust. I just changed out my starter the other day in under 5 min in the hull
CD155MX
Squirrel!!!
- Location
- Alta Loma, CA
Quinc
Buy a Superjet
- Location
- California
That's exactly how I did it. Wife held the cylinder and I flat rated the base gasket R&R, carbs and exhaust manifold/pipe still in ski lol
hornedogg79
dodgin' bass boats
Mini ratchet hoist is my friend.
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