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chris parker · 07-24-04, 10:32 AM

help! i am trying to build up my engine i have a problem with the sprung steel retaining clips on the little ends of the rods and pistons! i have kb silvolite piston and h beam rods the pistons and rods are a floating end sort so the pistons require a retaining ring which supplied is a sprung steel ring how do you instal these without destroying them or could i replace them with an internal circlip of the same dimension
i've built many english engines befor but they had pressed pistons
i'm racking my brains as how to collapse the ring so it will fit the grove?

07-24-04, 10:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
chris parker candc A Tenth Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: leicester uk GT40: tornado ts 40 Posts: 152 Rep Power: 7	piston instalation problem help! i am trying to build up my engine i have a problem with the sprung steel retaining clips on the little ends of the rods and pistons! i have kb silvolite piston and h beam rods the pistons and rods are a floating end sort so the pistons require a retaining ring which supplied is a sprung steel ring how do you instal these without destroying them or could i replace them with an internal circlip of the same dimension i've built many english engines befor but they had pressed pistons i'm racking my brains as how to collapse the ring so it will fit the grove?