[tcb] Re: Time to look for parts
- From: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:02:53 -0500
I did the same on the engine in my thing a couple of years ago and it was the
#3
piston and rings. When I pulled the heads you could see the grooves right
away.
A set of jugs and pistons with ring should do ya, but I would pull the heads
and check it out, could be a valve or something else.
Quoting Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>:
> I will need new cylinders, pistons, rings, all that stuff. At this point I
> will probably only change out those parts. There is the philosophy that I
> should replace the pushrod bearings and do a valve job and there is the
> feelings that I should simply build a new engine.
>
> I am old and tired and cash poor, so cylinders it is (maybe). Someone told me
> that I could buy the machined 88s with the pistons and rings already in them
> an I could simply install them at the wrist pins. Anybody know where I can
> find these and the prices? I have a source here for the 88s and pistons but I
> haven't heard a price yet.
>
> For you mechanics out there. I have power loss and smoke on the backstroke.
> Rings or burnt piston.
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