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Unfortunately, it seems that new pistons come with big nasty ears.
When i recieved mine in a black/green box with nasty ears on clips i thought i got fake one, but everything checks out on their web page
I thought the same thing when I got the first one in the new boxes.
 

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You just have to be careful and check to see if the OEM one are the same diameter, on the 360 I just finished ,the OEM ones where thinner and you could spin them around the Meteor grove easily.


I"m not being clever or anything, but wrist pin sizes are what they are. The clips should have some spring to them… after all that’s what keeps them in there place when they are travelling at wot 13k or so, and then change direction every 35mm or whatever your stroke is, that’s when it counts..
so I’m happy to reuse clips when I feel it’s ok. But when there’s blueing on the crank pin and it’s a lean seizure… I just may opt for new oem….you know heat and what it does to metal..

I think everyone is different, given different situations, and the Internet makes us miles apart, and you can’t see or touch my parts that I'm playing with :cool:

so if I could reuse oem clips over meteor I would, but if I was suspect about reusing oem clips…I’d have a choice to make.. that would be offered to the persons saw I was fixing. Or if it was my own it’s my choice.

but in short, meteor clips get the ears cut off…as.it’s extra weight at the stops-start bit that can fuk them. And you don’t really need them on stihls ;)
 

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Never really bothered to replace circlips only, whether oem or not.
I just make sure that circlip opening is not sideways, and always cut ears.
 

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I"m not being clever or anything, but wrist pin sizes are what they are. The clips should have some spring to them… after all that’s what keeps them in there place when they are travelling at wot 13k or so, and then change direction every 35mm or whatever your stroke is, that’s when it counts..
so I’m happy to reuse clips when I feel it’s ok. But when there’s blueing on the crank pin and it’s a lean seizure… I just may opt for new oem….you know heat and what it does to metal..

I think everyone is different, given different situations, and the Internet makes us miles apart, and you can’t see or touch my parts that I'm playing with :cool:

so if I could reuse oem clips over meteor I would, but if I was suspect about reusing oem clips…I’d have a choice to make.. that would be offered to the persons saw I was fixing. Or if it was my own it’s my choice.

but in short, meteor clips get the ears cut off…as.it’s extra weight at the stops-start bit that can fuk them. And you don’t really need them on stihls ;)
I was talking about the wire diameter, The Meteor wire was thicker so the grove in the piston was deeper and wider than the OEM piston.
 

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@Ronie - that's what I was concerned with as well. Wire diameter. I wish I would have measured mine but they seemed thicker to me. Also - I don't know if this is considered an ear or not but here are the ones I used.

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that's what I was concerned with as well. Wire diameter. I wish I would have measured mine but they seemed thicker to me.
After seeing how loose they felt in that 036 I measured them and the OEM ones were thinner. I"m not saying that's the case with all saws, just on that saw..
 

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Now we’re talking wire size and recess diameter and the friction, not just springiness of circlips in a grove & :rolleyes:
Now My brain cells are fighting :( even though we’ve lost the ears somewhere :eek:
 

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To me the Meteor clips are too thick and hard to get in the grooves and I prefer to use Stihl OEM clips .The trick to removing them is with an ice pick and a slightly hooked nut pick which has a flat on it .The last rebuild I did (Partner P-100 ) I used Wiseco clips which are a tad pricey .Those did have ears but they were Wiseco and if it's good enough for them who am I to argue .
 

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I've only used clips supplied with the piston and never clipped the ears off . Maybe I'm just lucky . The diameter of the clips can be drastically different between manufacturers so I don't mess with them.
I do take a dowel and force the pin against each clip with neck popping force after installing, just to make sure they're seated in nice and snugly.
 

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how many of you have ported the meteor jugs if so which clips then?
 

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On who makes what it's more confusing than Chinese arithmetic .I didn't know Meteor even made cylinders .I had heard at a recent GTG that some of the stuff is really "farmer tech " Saying that I've only used Meteor pistons and OEM cylinders . I might mention however when I rebuilt the two 99 cc Partners somebody jammed 14 MM clips in place of 13 MM .What kept them in place I'll never know ..
 

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As far as Meteor cylinders go if you buy one and there's a Chinesium cylinder in the box, this is not from Meteor, you have fell victim to the Ol' "switcheroo". Take a cheap one out if its box and put it in an expensive ones box, then send it back to where you bought it for a refund. That and/or counterfeiting the box straight from China. It wouldn't be the first product this happened to. At any rate you should get a hold of your supplier and get it straightened out, otherwise "they" not only got away with it, are free to repeat the process over again. If it's some seller on eBay that won't refund your money, then you can probably tell who did the switchin'.

Otherwise Meteor makes the toughest cylinder I've ever encountered, one being a 660 that broke a ring in a transfer port and tore the top of the piston off. All of which was digested and beat the piston to snot. there was not so much as a scratch in that cylinder, not even at the transfer port, not the squish band, let alone the cylinder wall.
One other was the one and only one that I ported, it broke my boring bar and tool holder in the lathe, again, cylinder was just fine.
As far as a replacement cylinder goes, they are some of the finest you'll get imo.

As far as the original post goes yes, the ones without ears are a pita, I have no problems with the ones with ears and I use OEM Husqvarna clips if I have to use an other sourced AM piston.
DO NOT USE Chinesium clips, they are cut from the binder of a spiral notebook best I can tell and have no "springiness" quality's to them that I have found.
 
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