on 25/4/00 1:28 pm, Banbury, Terrence at Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us
spoke forth:
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> Back in the mid '70's I had a Mark III 1296 rebuilt. After he had torn down
> the engine, the rebuilder asked me if it ran before I brought it in. I said
> yes, it ran fairly well, Blew a little oil, but since I had the rest of the
> car torn apart I thought I'd just do the engine. He then handed me one of
> the old pistons. On the side, there was a big gouge about the size of a
> dime and a section of the some of the rings was missing! We bored it out a
> little and rebuilt it with oversized pistons. Ran great. Makes me wonder
> what my current Spit pistons look like?
I rebuilt the engine on my MKIII last summer and every piston was worn like
that. 2 or 3 'holes' on the sides of each piston. It ran OK though!!!
Still good for 80mph. Burnt a little oil!!!!!
It makes you wonder how bad it has to get before total failure!!
Dean Rayner
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