DeTomaso Mailing List: August 97, Message #17
     



From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)

Subject: Re: Major Mistake :(

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 09:40:00 -0500



-> >pins.  Needless to say that the engine ran very well once the timing

-> was >straighten out, but wouldn't turn more than a few degrees

-> afterward.  Now the >dilemma.



 Take it apart first and make sure that's the problem.  If it is the

wristpins binding you can press the pistons off and take a look at

things.  The pistons can be honed on the rod machine, and the pins can

be polished or replaced - any machine shop will have a barrel full of

old pistons, just find some with pins of similar weight and dimensions.

That'd be most Ford small blocks and some sixes.



 There's a lot of leverage on the pin when the engine turns.  I've never

come across one bound so bad the starter couldn't crank it over.

Usually the pin will gall in the piston and the pistons will get a bit

rattly sounding at low throttle openings and when cold.



 Look first.  *Then* panic...



====dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us========================DoD#978=======

  can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...

ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT

==5.0 RX7 -> Tyrannosaurus RX! == SAE '82 == Denizens of Doom M/C '92==

                                                                       



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