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Cylinders and pistons are ready on my bench, and I'll have to do this tomorrow. What do you recommend as a strategy? Pistons in cylinders on the bench and install the pair at once? Or put pistons on rods first, and then slide cylinders over? The compressors I have are a sleeve with a clasp, and a solid-piece ring with a lip.
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The black ring tool and a couple of circlip insertion tools have been amazing. The shop lent them to me and this morning in just over an hour I put one piston and cylinder completely on and prepped three more pistons and cylinders. So I'm hopeful that tonight I can get the rest of them on in about 2 hours and get the shop back their tools for the Friday work day.
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Successful night! Those tools are amazing.
Also, these engines are so beautiful! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Getting ready to put back on the engine tins on my path to assembling heads and cam towers.
What is the recommended prep for the airflow tins? I saw some folks painting them in Cerokote, which looks fairly expensive. I also have no paint gun. Should I just clean them really well? Paint them with something else after cleaning?
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Paint and subassembly
Semi gloss black high temp rattle can works. This is how I do heads and cam carrier, cam and rockers.
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Rattle can paint on clean cylinder dividers, don’t paint aluminum as it’s a becomes an insulator.
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I'm considering if I need to find a way to sandblast them or such. Used an entire can of brake cleaner and they still aren't clean enough to paint.
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Go to the china store, harbor freight, they have little brushes with metal bristles that works well in the bend area.
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