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2496 Posts Member #: 1954 Post Whore Luton Bedfordshire |
13th Oct, 2009 at 09:22:20pm
I am expecting various answers to this thread so here goes.
Edited by Mr Joshua on 13th Oct, 2009. Own the day
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493 Posts Member #: 3894 Senior Member sallys gap. garden of Ireland |
13th Oct, 2009 at 09:44:17pm
ive had exactly this situation, in the recent past. it is highly irregular and should involve marching into the shop and trowing rod/piston assembly at said salesperson. (simon in my case) |
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 7765 Posts Member #: 74 I pick holes in everything.. Chief ancient post excavator |
13th Oct, 2009 at 10:35:02pm
You should expect to grind rings to fit in the bore.. On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem. |
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 (2)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150672766@N03/]Rod Sugden[/url], on Fli) 5988 Posts Member #: 2024 Formally Retired Rural Suffolk |
14th Oct, 2009 at 08:01:34am
On 13th Oct, 2009 Mr Joshua said:
Is it usual to have say, rings for another brand of manufacturer say Mazda supplied as the rings for the pistons. For a modern metric size piston, yes - the 73mm Hypatecs I bought were supplied with 73mm Hastings rings. No doubt I could have bought another make of rings instead because the diameters and thickesses are "standard" metric. For the weird imperial bore sizes and variety of ring thicknesses of a normally bored/re-bored A series, I would have thought less likely, but if the rings came in a box clearly marked as the correct diameter and thicknesses, it wouldn't bother me. On 13th Oct, 2009 Mr Joshua said:
Have you ever had to do this: After fitting your new pistons to your bored block you find them bar tight the supplier tells you that you have to cut them to fit! No, because I allways put every single ring in the bore and measure their gaps (and adjust if necissary) before fitting them to the pistons. However, I would alway expect there to be a gap, maybe needing increasing slightly with a needle file, but not so bad as to need "cutting". Modern production tolerances are much better than they used to be, the Hastings ones were all spot on for the end gaps they recommended. Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ??? |
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 11046 Posts Member #: 965 Post Whore Preston On The Brook |
14th Oct, 2009 at 06:11:41pm
On 13th Oct, 2009 Mr Joshua said:
After fitting your new pistons to your bored block you find them bar tight the supplier tells you that you have to cut them to fit! MINISPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll ask my man tomorrow, and im sure he will have a good giggle about that one  Wev'e had a few giggles recently (not at your expense  )
Your last comment says it all. Some one somewhere else made the connection with company names. Anything ending in 'speed' should be avoided Edited by Sprocket on 14th Oct, 2009. On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
Is it A-Series only? I think it should be... So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'... On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........ |
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