Ring compressor

[stiksave]

My son in law bought a set of piston ring compressors. Has anyone ever used them, how do they attach?

[Rich82GS750TZ]

What bike year and model? If this is for any GS 4 cylinder, or 2 cylinder, I had success, the one time I did this, from very good advice from forum members Steve and others, just using my fingers to first get #2 and #3 into the barrels, then #1 and #4. Takes a bit of fiddling but they'll go. Some cut wood spacers to slide under the 2 pistons that are up, which keeps the pistons steady as you work and then they won't fight you as you squeeze the rings and lower the barrels over the pistons.

[stiksave]

Yes, we've got the advice you talk about. He bought the oem suzuki ring compressors in the pic. Just trying to figure out how they attach. If not, fingers it is. It was my 83 GS1100E, now his.

[tatu]

Yes, we've got the advice you talk about. He bought the oem suzuki ring compressors in the pic. Just trying to figure out how they attach. If not, fingers it is. It was my 83 GS1100E, now his.

There's a pair of handles that attach to those ribbed bands, they go around the piston and the handles squeeze together like a pair of pliers and compresses the rings, there used to be two sets of these to do each pair of pistons. They had Blue handles and were very good at doing the job.

If you don't have the handles then maybe a big hose clamp?