Re: Frenching the Piston American style
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Re: Frenching the Piston American style



At 07:25 AM 9/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Squiggly push rods

I stopped by the machine shop this morning to check on the status of
my wagon's engine and I got the low down on what was making all the
racket.

All of the intake valves at one point or another decided to give the
pistons a little kiss. One of them was apparently feeling a little
more amorous than the rest and kissed the piston hard enough to
result
in a slightly S shaped push rod.
--------------------------------
Goes without saying your valve guides may or may
not be a new shape.

New valve springs and dampners will stop all that
touchey-feeley action in short order.

I spoke with the friend I got it from (mostly to harass him since it happened while he had it) and after it had been sitting for a while, he had trouble starting it (engine wouldn't turn over). The next weekend, he was able to start it but it ran rough for a few minutes and was making the same racket I heard after I got it running again. My guess is the valves were sticking on it from sitting and after a few love taps from the pistons, got freed up.


I don't remember what the machine shop said about the valve guides but the springs checked out okay and the valves were okay after a basic valve job. This shop is one of the few places I trust 100% with my car stuff so I'm sure they would replace them if they were bad.

Matt


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