Fitting cylinders and heads to the Monster 659 engine

Next step of the engine assembly series - fitting the cylinders and heads. Showing the vertical only as the video is long enough as is and it's all the same stuff in a new location.

I fit pistons and cylinders as an assembly. Some will fit the piston to the rod, then fit the cylinder over the piston. If the rings are an easy fit into the cylinder and you have an appropriate tool, that's fine. It's just a way of doing it that annoys me. But each to their own.

The fitting of the piston pin circlip is a particular low point for me - sometimes, when there's a camera to work around and filming, stuff just doesn't go according to plan. Never had one give me this much agro.

I saw a link somewhere to a Mahle video all about fitting circlips with some interesting tools for the job. Worth searching for if you need some confirmation you're doing it badly.

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