Chapper I am beginning to lean this way myself. I went out in the garage and said wth, lets go for round 2. I held the rod in my vise, got the rings all happy and squared up the Lisle oil filter wrench style compressor and clamped her down. #1 went in past the oil rings on the first punch of my fist. But the compressor then twisted and the top oil ring was barely above the bore and I undid the compressor and got the oil ring completely in then re-clamped and sent it home. Did the same on #2 and it went well except right at the last tap to get it home, it made a SNAP sound, and at the same time a little flake of moly coating flew out of the compressor and landed on my hand. NICE! So right now a set of Mahle rings are sounding pretty fricken awesome.