Re: Badger pistons casting quality....

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: I don't know about their castings for the 343, but I know a number of 
Jeep owners with shattered 304/360 and 401 pistons that would like to settle 
up in a dark alley someplace with the casting crew. It's almost like the 
crew was a group of young apes doing their first pour (typewriters 
notwithstanding, these were not works the bard would be proud of!)


From: biljoh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Badger pistons casting quality....
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  I posted earlier about a set of  +.030 cast badger pistons I bought of 
wich one of them has a small pit/pinhole on the top near the .030 stamp.  I 
called an AMC vendor to see if they had any .030 over and they had one, same 
badger part # and it had the same exact pinhole in the same place as the one 
in the set of 8 that I have?  My builder looked at the piston and said it 
won't be a problem as the pin hole couldnt go all the way through.  Has 
anybody else come across this piston anomaly during their rebuild? Is this 

common with new cast aftermarket pistons?