Piston pin clip install

[chevyman]

How does one go about installing the clips that keep the piston pin in? I am about to go crazy!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Ahh,, push them in the pin bore of the piston.
Pioneerguy600

 

[logging22]

I use a small pair of needle nose pliers and give them a twist. My .02 only.

 

[blsnelling]

I use a Stihl tuning screwdriver.

 

[chevyman]

Ohhhhh is that what i do pioneerguy600...thanks a ton. they dont want to go in and i dont want to scratch the side of the piston. And i dont want to bend the clip. I guess i will just horse it in. I didnt know if there was a method to it.

 

[povchrisw]

I use a small pair of needle nose pliers and give them a twist. My .02 only.

:agree2:

 

[blsnelling]

I didnt know if there was a method to it.

Finesse is the word. You absolutely don't want to bend it. It'll have to flex some to get it in there. But you cannot bend it, or it will not have the tension in needs to stay in place.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Ohhhhh is that what i do pioneerguy600...thanks a ton. they dont want to go in and i dont want to scratch the side of the piston. And i dont want to bend the clip. I guess i will just horse it in. I didnt know if there was a method to it.

Just messin with ya, easiest way to install them for me is to,place one on the end of the bore,push in one side of the clip and keeping it under my thumb I take a small screwdriver ,that I have cut a small notch in it with a file, place the notch over the clip and push down or in depending how the piston is facing. The clip will go in and snap into the ring groove, very important to keep the thumb over the clip as they have been known to spring away and get lost.
Pioneerguy600

 

[chevyman]

Thanks Brad...thats what im lookin for!

 

[GlenM]

Pioneer, verbatim to way I learned to do it,,,

 

[chevyman]

Thanks pioneerguy600....great idea!!!

 

[Brian13]

I use a simelar meathod only I use small needle nose pliers indtead of the screwdriver.

 

[Brian13]

I use a similar method only I use small needle nose pliers instead of the screwdriver.

 

[fiasco]

I always made sure I bought an extra four clips whenever I had to put in a new top end in a concrete saw or 6401 back when I was working at HD Tool Rental.

 

[cjnspecial]

Take one of the little stihl tuning screwdrvers and file a v notch into it. It works like a charm. Mine is about the same as the one below but has a smaller notch and the notch is off center.

http://www.arboristsite.com/showpost.php?p=957956&postcount=10

 

[john taliaferro]

best to get a old piston to practice on , and bandades handy you should wear safety glasses i do the bigger ones relly travel

 

[Farley9n]

It helps to put one in while the piston is still in your hand. Be sure it's the one that would be the hardest to get to if the piston were already on the rod. Plenty of good suggestions here for getting the other one in.....Bob

 

[belgian]

I use a similar method only I use small needle nose pliers instead of the screwdriver.

my method too. But it took me a while also to get a hand of it.... If you hear that funny noise like ....ZZZZZIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG, you know you gotta problem....grrr:chainsawguy:

 

[AUSSIE1]

I use a similar method only I use small needle nose pliers instead of the screwdriver.

It helps to put one in while the piston is still in your hand. Be sure it's the one that would be the hardest to get to if the piston were already on the rod. Plenty of good suggestions here for getting the other one in.....Bob

This is the way I do it and turn the pliers as you push in.

 

[Jack_Shaft]

My favorite part is this sequence of events:

- Slip
- Listen....
- Listen.......
- Ping
- Pan
- Pong
- Dingly-dang-dong on the other side of your garage
- Commence swearing

:chainsawguy: