My Diamond is still rough

barnbiketom · Post by **barnbiketom** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:30 am

pemdoc65 wrote:Classic Honda Restoration sells replacement sleeves. They are easy to change out, but they need to be bored to size after installation. I heated my cylinders up in the oven (when my wife wasn't home) and they dropped right out. I put the new sleeve in the freezer, and it dropped into the warm block without much force.

10-4 about the wife. mine would know in a split second lolol.. she just knows me too well...

barnbiketom · Post by **barnbiketom** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:32 am

the remaining 3 circlips are oriented in all different positions. one the gap is up, one the gap is right, one is left... NOt GOOD.. supposed to be down ? right???

there appear to be TWO different sets of rings.
on the RT side, the blown side, only one ring has a marking.. the second ring ...it has a tiny "N" and a TINY step on the bottom of the ring..

the left side, no rings have markings but the middle ring has a much different profile than the one on the right.. a much bigger step in the bottom side...and it was stuck from varnish/gookum.

heres some pics of the piston the clip came out of...it does have a circlip escape pathnow that i soda blasted off the varnish!! , I can barely catch my fingernail on it!!

barnbiketom · Post by **barnbiketom** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:23 pm

i soda blasted this one . grooves all cleaned up. I don't think it did too much damage??

LOUD MOUSE · Post by **LOUD MOUSE** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:46 pm

Clips only need to "NOT HAVE THE OPEN AT THE DIMPLE". ..............lm

barnbiketom wrote:the remaining 3 circlips are oriented in all different positions. one the gap is up, one the gap is right, one is left... NOt GOOD.. supposed to be down ? right???

there appear to be TWO different sets of rings.
on the RT side, the blown side, only one ring has a marking.. the second ring ...it has a tiny "N" and a TINY step on the bottom of the ring..

the left side, no rings have markings but the middle ring has a much different profile than the one on the right.. a much bigger step in the bottom side...and it was stuck from varnish/gookum.

heres some pics of the piston the clip came out of...it does have a circlip escape pathnow that i soda blasted off the varnish!! , I can barely catch my fingernail on it!!

barnbiketom · Post by **barnbiketom** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:11 pm

No dimple is simple

Jims65CA77 · Post by **Jims65CA77** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:55 am

I didn't realize that sleeves fell out when heated. I "thought" that they had to be pressed in.

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:42 pm

I just heat the barrel up with it inverted on blocks. The liners just drop out. Reverse is also true. Just heat up and they drop in. The machine shop I use recommends that you push them down with a press after the barrel has cooled.

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