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Help please! Top tips welcomed on just how to refit my barrels on to my Lawson. I spent all day Sunday mucking about with jubilee clips, cut up plastic containers and tie-wraps, blocks of wood and lots of cursing.

I cant for the life of me get the bloody things fitted

I'm getting to the point where I am prepared to pay someone else to fit the bloody thing!

Help and advice gratefully received!!

Take your time and don't get stressed. Get at least one other person to help you. Get a biscuit tin and cut yourself some strips about an inch wide the length of the circumference of your pistons. Wrap the tin strips around the rings on the inner two pistons and secure with cable ties. Cut some bits of wood to support the piston skirts against the mouth of the crankcase so that the pistons are held parallel with the bores and unable to move down down. smear plenty of engine oil around 2 & 3 bores and gently slide them down over the pistons. As the barrels come down the tin ring clamps will be pushed out of the way. You can very gently rock the barrels as they go down but not very far. Having one person either side watching the pistons go in is always better. Then basically repeat with 1 & 4, but always take your time and never force anything.l

Hope this helps

Martin....just use your fingers....you'll find it easier, you may scratch a finger or two but it always works for me.

Cheers both! Tried the fingers as this was the advice in the Clymer manual. Managed to get one piston in which then popped out when I tried to do the other. Also tried the other suggestion but with plastic milk cartons and jubilee clips. I was trying to do it myself so will get a little helper this weekend and have another go.

Will try to stay calm this time round!!

I always use scotts method one piston ring on one piston at a time take your time and they just slip in

agree.

couple of spacers to keep the middle pistone steady and gently run round the bike easing the pistons into the bores. If there is no or little chamfer though it'll be a bugger.

mikey wrote:I always use scotts method one piston ring on one piston at a time take your time and they just slip in

What he said

scott wrote:Martin....just use your fingers....you'll find it easier, you may scratch a finger or two but it always works for me.

What I meant was ...... what he said

Yahoo! They are on.....

With thanks for all the advice; an extra pair of hands who was not bothered about their finger nails and some tie wraps did the trick.

I've now got something that looks like a bike coming together. Watch out for new pictures in the project section later when the fog clears and I can see where my garage is.