RanjS8
8th August 2012, 04:13 PM
Finally got the bad piston out today...what a mission of discovery this has been so far....Once I have a new piston I should be on my way to putting things back together....but I m sure there are gona be some tricky points along the way!!!!
With the cylinder head off, to get to the piston one has to remove the lower sump and upper sump. You may have to remove the oil pump as well, but since the offending piston was towards the back I could get to the bolts connecting it to the crankshaft without removing this.
The piston is connected to the crankshaft by two bolts and there is a metal sleeve between the piston and the cranshaft.
Once the two bolts were off, the piston is extracted from the top by pushing it up from the bottom....I used a long piece of wood as I didnt want to damage the bore lining.
Cylinder 7 piston was damaged and I removed cylinder 8 piston as the lining of the bore has slight scoring so I thought that I may as well solve this issue while I m at this point.
This is the first time in my life I have seen an actual piston so quite cool finally being able to put things into perspective.
With the cylinder head off, to get to the piston one has to remove the lower sump and upper sump. You may have to remove the oil pump as well, but since the offending piston was towards the back I could get to the bolts connecting it to the crankshaft without removing this.
The piston is connected to the crankshaft by two bolts and there is a metal sleeve between the piston and the cranshaft.
Once the two bolts were off, the piston is extracted from the top by pushing it up from the bottom....I used a long piece of wood as I didnt want to damage the bore lining.
Cylinder 7 piston was damaged and I removed cylinder 8 piston as the lining of the bore has slight scoring so I thought that I may as well solve this issue while I m at this point.
This is the first time in my life I have seen an actual piston so quite cool finally being able to put things into perspective.