Thread: How to get Pistons off Rods?

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ok, here goes!

Not exactly sure of the procedure on how to get the pins off the rods, but being as you have to heat them to press them on, im sure u heat them to press them off... Just take the set to a machine shop, they should be able to either a) do it for you, or b) tell u how to do it.

When refering to a "bushed" rod, they are speaking of using those snap rings to hold the pin in the piston. The bushing in the rod allows the pin to rotate without being metal to metal. A bushed rod with a moving pin won't make metal inside the motor like a pressfit rod would if u tried to use the snap ring method. Be cautions when buying parts because Press fit pistons will not go with bushed rods. Also, the snap ring pistons won't work with pressfit rods.

I'm not exactly sure which method lasts longer, but i really like using the snap ringed pistons because I can do it myself, without heat, and it doesn't really take any special tools. Maybe a small screw driver to snap them in.

I really like the spirolox, they aren't hard to put in and they are really durable.