After reading through the numerous replies on this subject, seems like a
crucial point has been overloked regarding pistons. The criteria below
(pits, scores, or burns) probably is of little consequence if the piston
lands are worn and beyond tolerance. Was this taken into consideration
before new rings were installed? What about wrist pins?
Gerard
At 8:23 AM -0500 1/21/01, DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/20/2001 2:47:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>type79@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
><< Jaime, with all due
> respect, I would not consider an engine as "rebuilt", using old pistons. >>
>
>I disagree with this. I think it is a matter of inspection. The old pistons
>may be in excellent condition, as were mine in my 1275 that I "rebuilt".
>They just needed cleaning as there were no evident.
>
>--David C.
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