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examine my piston top

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Guy said:
My wife's bore is still in fine condition too.





The conrod is fine. No sludge suggests it's had plenty of oil changes. It would do no harm at this stage to drop the oil pan and clean the pick up strainer though...
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Is your stroke up to snuff?
 
1948man said:
Is your stroke up to snuff?
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dont know yet man have not measured anything yet. Just got a rolling chassis back together, just got to engine teardown and looking over phase. if ring gap is ok, I am just gonna strip and paint the engine, reassemble, adjust valves, carb o rings and be on the road........ Oh yeah, 1,2,3 sooooo easy... ha ha
 
Guy said:
My wife's bore is still in fine condition too.





The conrod is fine. No sludge suggests it's had plenty of oil changes. It would do no harm at this stage to drop the oil pan and clean the pick up strainer though...
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turns out the advice to drop the pan and clean the strainer was a good one, the screen itself was very clean however the strainer cavity itself contained a serious wad of silicone "strings" that squeezed into to engine cavity as various components /case/parts were tightened down. I do not beleive it was really restricting oil flow, but certainly good to get it out. A bigger issue was I found a bolt right next to the strainer that had come loose and had backed out about three quarters of an inch. I have yet to determine what this bolt is (cannot find it in the manual. Will probably put a lock washer on it and tighten it down snug. Inside of bottom end looks as clean as can be also, the very slightest film of sludge on bottom of oil pan... looking good. thanks again
 
1948man said:
Actually the stroke comment was for Guy. Just bouncing off his pun about his wife's bore.
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As I just got that, it makes it 10x funnier....nice one.Guess I should have looked at what you were commenting on before I assumed the world was all about me! ha ha
 
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