Gunner...

What Steve said.. :-)

--.- Dave


"Steve W." wrote in message
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Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:06:38 -0800, "Dave August"
wrote:

Gunner..

I'll bet the Kroil just loosened the rust between the rings and cylinder
walls.. but the rings are still stuck in the grooves of the piston and
aren't compressing at all..

More than likely. All I was hoping for anyways.
Ream the ridge....

Digging through my Stuff...I found a Sunnen Cylinder hone..an older
version of this:
http://www.goodson.com/store/templat...2285e156824167

Will that be ok to take the ridge, or do I need an actual ridge reamer?

Hate to say it but Nope. That will work GREAT to clean up the cylinders
once you have the pistons out though.

For a ridge reamer hit an Parts America/Advance/Schucks/Kragens,
Autozone type parts store. They will "loan" you one.

http://www.autozone.com/in_our_store...oan_a_tool.htm
look under "valvetrain repair" and you will see the item you want.

The way the rental works- You pay full price for the tools you need.
They go in the back and get them, YOU OPEN them right there and make
note of anything you see missing or wrong, pay for them, then you take
them home and use them. When you return them to the store they will look
them over and as long as you didn't break or mutilate them you get all
your money back.
They have a LOT of specialized and general purpose tools available as
rental tools.

MUCH cheaper to rent many of them than to buy them if your doing one
engine per lifetime.

This welder is a mid 1980s model, so the engine is mid '80s, with about
2500 hrs on it.

Depending on how much it will cost..money is tight at the moment....Ill
probably go all the way through it. Guy gave me a set of used valves
from an engine that that had a total rebuild not long ...after they put
in a set of valves....Lincoln SA-200...same engine.

Rent the tools and save a chunk of money.
Parts wise IF the pistons mic up OK and the bores clean up you could do
a simple rebuild. Ream the valve guides and install bronze liners, Then
borrow a valve grinder to clean up the seats, new bearings (if needed,
plasti-gauge them first). Rings and gaskets. Carb rebuild. New plugs,
wires and cap/rotor.
They are about as simple to rebuild as an engine gets.


Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.


--
Steve W.