With the pliers, grasp the end of the spring keeper...
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...and twist in a clockwise direction while simultaneously pull
outward... |
...and out she pops. |
You can clearly see the end of the wrist pin now. |
To press the pin out, get a foot of 3/8th's ReadiRod, a couple Heavy
fender washers, nuts, a 3" piece of Schedule 40 3/4" PVC pipe and
a 15mm deep socket. |
Put it together like so...and turn the socket slowly through the piston.
It should go through smoothly with little effort.
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You can turn the piston to take a peek on progress. You can see the
socket in the left oil hole in the rod small end. |
When the pin is clear of the rod arm small end... |
...you can slip it right off. If you are replacing the pistons you can
continue to press the wrist pin all the way through. |
There is an "arrow" stamped into the piston head. This arrow always
points toward the front of the engine.
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The piston is also stamped with the "size". It will either be a "A", "B"
or "C". |
The front face of the cylinder will have a corresponding "size" stamp on
it's front face also. |
Here's a profile of the piston in which you can see the top 2
compression rings and the bottom oil ring. |
Find the gap in the top ring and peel it off. |
One down, two to go...sort of. |
Remove the second compression ring the same way. |
Notice this ring has beveled edges and a "dot" stamped near the bottom
gap. |
The bottom ring called the oil ring consists of 3 pieces. Remove them in
the same manner as the other 2 rings. |
A picture of the engine sans cylinders, pistons and timing gears. |
Cleaned piston ready for new rings. |
There are 3 different size pistons for the URAL; but only 1 size
set of rings. There is no need to off-set the ring gaps, this is an old
wife's tale. Later, when installing the cylinder, we'll line them up
together. |
Put the oil ring on first. It consists of 2 flat rings and a wavy ring. |
Sandwich the wavy ring between the 2 flat rings in the bottom groove.
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Bird's eye view of the first oil ring in place. Finish putting the other
2 oil rings on |
Next comes the lower compression ring. The small "dot" stamped at the
end of the left part of the ring always faces up on the piston.
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Profile view of the oil and lower compression ring in place. |
The top compression ring can go on either side up. |
Finished piston. |
Get the wrist pin press ready... |
...along with the wrist pin. |
Use a little motor oil to lube up the wrist pin and pin hole. |
Start the wrist pin through with finger pressure or a couple light taps
with a hammer. Just enough to seat it and set up the press. Press it
through until it clears the groove for the wrist pin keepers. |
To get the keepers in, put the tab in the groove at the 6 o'clock
position while applying finger pressure at 12 o'clock... |
...grasp the tab of the keeper and rotate the keeper clockwise while
continuing to hold downward finger pressure. |
The keeper will pop into place in about 1/2 a turn. |
Both pistons reattached awaiting cylinders.
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