1978 GS1000 Lost motivation

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Eat the popsicles 1st.

That's gold!

Currently the 2 to end pistons are up do you see any problem doing it in that configuration?

No, just find whichever configuration makes sense to you. Personally I find it easiest doing the inner 2 cylinders first, but only because it makes handling the ring-compressors easier. But if you have first eaten the popsicles, my guess is that either config. will be fine.

[HaggisHombre]

Me and my son installed the barrels without the ring compression tools. Also we did not use the wooden blocks. At first it seemed like it was not working but once we got the ring compression technique down using the Popsicle sticks they went on quite easily. It did take about 30 minutes.

[posplayr]

I used the wooden block method, and it worked well, I carefully used a small screw driver to compress the last piece of ring in so the cylinder would slide down as my fingers were not quite strong enough.

That is a clean setup.