Fitting sized piston rings to a piston in readiness for fitting to a Barrel. This video is on a Royal Enfield Bullet 350 Classic but the principal applies to any piston engine.
To be fair in all the years I worked as a mechanic not one person called them compression rings. Everyone said piston rings. 🙂 Some cool old Aerial bike vids btw.
Though there are tons of other videos on this subject, your demonstration is way above them all... I have been watching your videos, especially the Royal Enfield ones, as I own two of them, the older ones, like the one you have and the film camera ones as I am a film photographer for the love of it. One question that I have and have been withdrawing myself from asking is, how did you manage to learn the mechanics of the vehicle? Was is self taught or by way of college education? Hope you don't mind answering this question... Liked, commented & subscribed...
Thanks for the kind words. I was ripped off for some work on a motorbike back when I was 17, took it in for fault finding and ended up paying for a service I didn't ask for, (and later finding they'd not done all they were supposed to have). After having the fault re occur on the ride home I decided to start learning. A year later I did an NVQ (national vocational qualification) in mechanics and worked at a VW specialist for a couple of years and worked on my own vehicles since, in the last few years I've tended to leave the car work to the garage I get MOT's at due to getting older and achy and the mostly wet weather as I don't have anywhere indoors to work on them. (Unless the weather is dry and decent)
@@spidiq8 ok. I have a Zenit 11 that I got last year. When I received, it was in working order. I fiddled with dials without reading user manual. May be the self timer may have caused the film advance lever to stuck. It is still stuck. I should give a thorough reading of service manual and attempt to fix, fingers crossed. Thanks so much for the reply. If you have some lessons learnt, please share. Appreciate it...
@@prajeethk4348 the common problem with these is not winding on before setting the shutter speed. I haven't stripped one enough to say how to fix it though.
I have a 5 ring piston fitted on a old bullet.. it's a 90 model bullet 350.. it has little white smoke. Barely seen from naked eye but when you carefully look it has. But when accelerating there is no smoke?
sunil thomas Nothing to worry about if it's a little one start and barely visible, only a problem if there's a lot in use and your spark plug is fouling, that means there's a lot of oil blowing past the rings, tolerances are looser on the iron barrel bullets than modern ally engines meaning when cold a little oil could seep past.
I have a question . I have a 03 electra 4 speed 350, is it possible that i can upgrade it with 500 std piston , barell head , clutch etc and enhance the performance????
Bangbros69 -8 As far as I'm aware you should be able to swap the barrel head and piston straight onto the engine but I don't know if there's a difference in the stroke, if the difference is all in the diameter of the barrel then yes, effectively you'll increase the capacity and performance to that of the 500cc you might need to swap the carburettor or jets to suit the higher capacity too.
spidiq8 Thank you soo much really appreciate it , a great relief that i'd be able to enhance the thump and power of my forever enfiled . Lastly ,although it's not efficient does riding a dry clutch boost performence ??
Bangbros69 -8 You're welcome, Yes a dry clutch will enhance performance but only marginally, there's less drag but with something like the Enfield you'd really never notice, it only matters on the track where fractions of a second count, I'm not sure how you'd implement it either.
clash of clan That depends on many factors, type of use the bike gets, temperatures, frequency of oil changes, filters, oil levels, and so on, it's impossible to specify.
clash of clan Honestly, no. If everything was fitted carefully and tolerances were ideal and it's been run in properly and had frequent oil and filter changes and only been ridden carefully in moderate climates then potentially thousands of miles, if it's been thrashed mercilessly for 10 minutes in hot sunshine with old oil or insufficient oil two months ago it could stop tomorrow, or next week, or next month or keep going for a couple of years. It's literally impossible to tell the condition and lifespan without stripping and inspecting everything and rebuilding even then you could only estimate based on the condition of the barrel and piston at that point you see.
