Cylinder And Piston Disassembly; Assembling The Cylinder And Piston - Makita EA6100P Repair Manual

11 CYLINDER / PISTON
Repair Manual EA6100P / EA6101P
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Cylinder and piston disassembly

Remove the muf er, see chap. 04.
Remove the starting system, see chap. 06.
Remove the carburetor unit, see chapter 08.
Unscrew the cylinder bolts and pull the cylinder up and
off.
Remove and reinstall the circlip 5 with needle-nose
pliers.

Assembling the cylinder and piston

Carefully remove any gasket residues!
Use a new cylinder base gasket 2!
Before assembly, lightly oil the cylinder race,
piston and needle bearing 6!
Install the piston with the arrow marking 4 on the outlet
side of the camshaft (piston ring lock on the inlet side).
Move piston to bottom dead centre.
Position the opening on the piston ring towards the
piston ring lock.
Use the piston ring tensioner 1 to press the piston ring
together.
Push the cylinder onto the piston. Let the piston ring
tensioner slide down with it.
Remove the piston ring tensioner and press the
cylinder all the way down on the pins 3.
Hand-tighten the screws lightly crosswise, and then
tighten to the correct torque (12
crosswise.
Nm), again
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