Need some hints for getting piston into engine block

[ezcome-ezgo]

Plus, mmmm popsickle.

 

[PaulK]

Got it!
Had to us lowest set of rings from old piston!

 

[The.MiniTard]

I've always used a couple wood popsicle sticks. Never needed to use a ring compressor.

care to elaborate...im interested.

 

[Joe-405]

He explained but it works well. I did it with mine and just used a pick and it worked flawlessly. The catch is to keep pressure with one hand and slowly circling around the ring and pushing it in the hole with the piston. It will slide in.

 

[zogthegreat]

The bottom ring in the second picture. The gap in it is too small (the "space" in it's circumference), this space will not allow it to compress enough to sink into the piston and clear the bore.

How do you fix the gap if it's to large? I'm about to start rebuilding one of my 6.5 clones and the oil ring "overlaps". Should I remove a, (small), portion of the oil ring?

 

[KartFab]

you need to check ring end gap with a feeler gauge, oil rings should be no less than about .015" iirc

I had my block bored out and it didnt have that little taper at the top, so i heated my bock with an heat gun (after checking ring end gaps and piston/bore size) and got it in easy after keeping the piston/rings cool and the block really hot.