it took hours to get the rings out of the pistons… ugh
there is some nasty shit built up in the ring lands. whats the best way to clean them up?
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it took hours to get the rings out of the pistons… ugh
there is some nasty shit built up in the ring lands. whats the best way to clean them up?
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If you can find the equipment, I remember back in the day using an air gun setup that used crushed up walnut shells as a blast agent. However, doing my best to stay away from rebuilds over the past 10 years or so, I can’t say if there’s a newer, better way.
wheel acid dip, or soaking in concentrated degreaser or throttle body cleaner or fuel system cleaner
Just drop them on the floor a few times, shit will fall right off…
lol, +1 for throttle body cleaner.
good wheel acid will cloud the surface of bare aluminium
if the rings are all out use a brokenring toscrub the grooves, and use a white scotch brite for the flats
brass brushes also work well on the piston top
and oh yea, let them soak overnight in kero / gasoline or something else thats not enviromentaly friendly
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wheel acid dip, or soaking in concentrated degreaser or throttle body cleaner or fuel system cleaner
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+1 for soaking in concentrated degreaser. I used Purple Power degreaser from Clean-Rite.
why did it take so long to get the rings out, was there so much buildup that they were just stuck, or what? that’s a lot of crap 
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use a broken ring to scrub the grooves
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:tup: yeah, scrape it out this way
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why did it take so long to get the rings out, was there so much buildup that they were just stuck, or what? that’s a lot of crap
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yeah, there is a metric ass ton of shit in in the grooves