[tcb] Re: Time to look for parts
- From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT)
It's always been my opinion that if your going to pull the heads then go ahead
and split the case and replace the bearings and the oil pump. no telling what
kind of trash has been introduced into the oiling system. Your only talking
another $50.00-100.00 worth of parts.
mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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 :
> 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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