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minimole23

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 04:56:00pm

What is the best way to do this to avoid ring damage, I am aware that if I break a std turbo piston ring thats it i'm fucked as they are now obsolete.

Would it be better to use the tool that sort of pulls the ring apart, or to carefully manuvre the ring into the groove.

Thanks.

On 7th Oct, 2010 5haneJ said:
yeah I gave it all a good prodding

joeybaby83

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 05:24:00pm

invest in the proper tool, like one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BERGEN-TOOLS-2-PIECE...id=p3286.c0.m14

makes it childs play

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stevieturbo

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 05:49:26pm

I use a cheapy Clarke tool....

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Joe C

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Carlos Fandango

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 06:05:38pm

i use a cheap Clark tool to....

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

https://joe1977.imgbb.com/



Bat

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 07:59:04pm

Hi,
The last I heard you could still get std turbo rings, there was a post about it on here....
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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minimole23

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 08:00:08pm

Hmm, well I just cant afford to break a set anyway!

I won the auction anyway, thanks all.

On 7th Oct, 2010 5haneJ said:
yeah I gave it all a good prodding

wil_h

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2nd Jul, 2008 at 08:11:13pm

Just to confirm, I use the above tool and had no problem.

Once I had the thing the right way round that is. They are not an intuitive tool to use, and come with no instructions!

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On 2nd Jan, 2013 fastcarl said:
the design shows a distinct lack of imagination,
talk about starting off with a clean sheet of paper, then not bothering to fucking draw on it,lol

On 20th Apr, 2012 Paul S said:
I'm mainly concerned about swirl in the runners caused by the tangential entry.

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