® Special tools: Piston ring compressors
A twenty-part series

For those vintage engines in which the crankcase and cylinders are still two pieces, the ring compressors sold by the factories are really handy, if not mandatory. Here is a collection mostly from Honda and Yamaha. Each set of two matched compressors in my collection I marked and color-coded, and fits a nominal range, such as 65mm~67mm. You don't know how painless installing a cylinder block can be until you try these! Too bad they are long discontinued. But they still can be found here and there.



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Part 13


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