Cylinder Install 

One of the most beautiful videos that explain the installation method, very simple, full of information, no disturb or music inconvenience or crowding. Borrowing the place and several parts this is the most important. Thank you for this wonderful video, one of the most beautiful views and explanation for Pilot and ownership please keep making these videos with all these simplistic techniques with full of information Thank you so much

Another turbine guy stopping in for a piston refresher. Thanks for the video. I like the automotive ring compressor.

At there prices I thought they would be made of gold. But thank you for letting us know how this is done. But aircraft mechanics are worth their weight in gold. Happy flying.

Great video! Thank you. As for the pushrod tubes, I would have cleaned them. 🙂

Great video. Been a long time since I replaced a cylinder, been working turbine engine to long, and wanted a refresher. One thing I noticed on the video is that you did not install the piston pin caps on the #2 cylinder in the video, the ones that fell when you took it off. Thanks for the video.

18:09 Are the through studs free-floating within the block (without friction)? If so, then a wrench on the far nut ensures equal torque on both nuts, and equal tightening on both sides, even with only one of the nuts oiled. If not (i.e. friction requires the stud to be hammer-drifted through the block) then the torques and axial clamping loads on each nut are somewhat isolated and independent. Via hysteresis, stud-to-block friction could allow the far nut to not fully regain any clamping it loses during removal of the near nut. Therefore, you would need to oil and retorque both nuts sequentially, with one torque wrench and one standard wrench. Otherwise, you could oil and simultaneously torque both nuts, if possible to use two torque wrenches. To ensure that both torque wrenches click, you might have to mildly overtorque whicever torque wrench that clicks first. This is especially true, if the stud-to-block friction is low.

This is awesome. I'm an o320 owner who just ok'd a cylinder going to a shop so this is cool to see. About how many hours on average for removal and install do you think? Not doing new pistons in my case.

Greetings! Excellent videos, well put together. I've enjoyed them and appreciate your no-frills approach quite a bit. Thank you for the effort you've put into them. At 7:18 in this video, the overlay mentions "See my video on checking piston rings". What is the title of that video on your channel? Searching for "piston", "rings", etc., doesn't seem to yield a result. Thanks again!

good job

Really informative video and well produced. Where are you based and do you travel to help people out with their own engine issues?

Good video 👍 Interesting that you have to replace the push rods to get the correct tappet clearance. I wonder if that’s a Lycoming thing, or just in aviation. When I worked at a motorcycle dealership, we just replaced or changed out shims to get the correct valve clearance. Or adjusted the length of the push rod to get the correct clearance.

What keeps the connecting rod piston pin from sliding out and scoring the cylinder walls?

Force, not pressure.

Owner break in I assume ?

An almost pretty good video. Except. Pulling the lifters out of the case. NO MAGNET!!!!!! NO NO NO NO NO MAGNET. Again NONONONO. If you magnetize the lifter, Lycoming wants you to throw it away and purchase a new one. Ouch!

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One of the most beautiful videos that explain the installation method, very simple, full of information, no disturb or music inconvenience or crowding. Borrowing the place and several parts this is the most important. Thank you for this wonderful video, one of the most beautiful views and explanation for Pilot and ownership please keep making these videos with all these simplistic techniques with full of information