8. Cylinder / Piston
8-7
Piston Installation
Install piston and piston pin, and place the IN
marks on the piston top side forward to intake
valve.
Install new piston pin snap ring.
Caution
Cylinder Installation
Clean up all residues and foreign materials on
the matching surface of crankcase. Pay
attention to not let these residues and foreign
materials fall into crankcase.
Caution
Install dowel pins and new gasket.
Coat the engine oil to inside of cylinder, piston
and piston rings.
Care to be taken when installing piston into
cylinder. Press piston rings in one by one as
installation.
Caution
Install coolant hose onto cylinder.
Install cylinder head (refer to Chapter 6).
z Do not let the opening of piston pin snap
ring align with the opening piston ring.
z Place a piece of cloth between piston
and crankcase in order to prevent snap
ring from falling into crankcase as
operation.
z Do not push piston into cylinder forcefully
because piston and piston rings will be
damaged.
Soap the residues into solvent so that the
residues can be removed more easily.
Coolant hose
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