Posted by Paul in MN on February 17, 2010 at 19:27:09 from (71.210.152.75):
In Reply to: Re: Cylinder Ridge posted by old on February 17, 2010 at 18:33:20:
Old,
You and I agree on many things, but I'll agree to disagree with you on this one. I can keep the shavings from droppin betwen the piston and cylinder wall by using glazing putty rolled out thin like a good fishing worm and gently put at the top perimeter of the piston. Use your air gun or shop vac to get the 98% of the shavings out and then pull up the glazing putty with a few shavings stuck in it and throw it out. I'll never put an engine back together with noticable ring ridges.
But you do it your way, and I'll do it my way. We may never see a difference, but as I found in that old Plymouth, the ridges can be disasterous. Maybe that engine was one in a million, but it was mine and it suddenly got very sick. As I was a church-mouse-poor college kid at the time, I didn't have money for new bearings and turning the crankshaft. And I needed to get 2 more years out of that car, so it got 2 new Montgomery Wards pistons w/rings, a head and pan gasket and 6 ridges reamed. It ran for many more thousands of miles.
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