How do I change piston rings?

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How do I change piston rings?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 AT 7:35 AM

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Tiny
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This is quite an involved and complex job, the risk of breaking the new rings is quite real, have you ever done this type of work? You will have to re hone the bores before fitting the rings, can you do this and do you have all the tooling required?
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