Honda VT750C2 Shadow Spirit Service Manual page 202

CYLINDER/PISTON
Remove the gasket and dowel pins.
Be careful not
to Clean off any gasket material from the cylinder mat­
damage the gasket
ing surface.
surface.
PISTON REMOVAL
Place a clean shop
Remove the piston pin clips with pliers.
towel over the Push the piston pin out of the piston and connecting
crankcase
to rod, and remove the piston.
prevent the piston
pin clips from falling
into the crankcase.
Do not damage the
Spread each piston ring and remove it by lifting up
piston ring by a point opposite the gap.
spreading the ends
too far.
Never use
a
wire
Clean carbon depo.sits frol1) the ring grooves with a
brush; it will scratch
used piston ring that will
be
discarded.
the groove.
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