Re: special tools needed to compress piston rings?
Look for something like this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle-piston-ring-tool-installation-compressor-/200672297561?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2eb9004259
Re: special tools needed to compress piston rings?
Usually you can press rings in with fingers...not always...I had a super max PITA KE4 powerhead
that just would not cooperate...looked in Bailey's
chain saw on line catalog and found a set of plastic
ring squeezers for a reasonable $7.95 or some such
plus $8.95 S & H (OUCH!!!) Arrived in due course
and worked where nothing else I tried could...
Nice tool(s) that work as advertised but oh that
S & H. (I had worked over several days trying to
make up something but this was the motor from
that warm place.
Louis