Re: pressing piston pins

Rick Sorak wrote:

> Hello spridgets,
> 
>   Anyone here installed piston pins? Can I just put the pins in the
>   freezer and the rods in a 250 degree oven and then carefully push
>   them in?
> 
I think they need to be heated to 600* and it has to be done quick.
Go to a machine shop, the last thing you want is to have your wrist pins 
walk out and score the cylinder walls.
At $5 a piston, it is well worth it. I don't think my machinist charges 
me $5, more like $2 or 3 each.

-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ