- 1. Piston to bore clearance (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:23:40 -0800
- Next installment in the Sprite that sounds like a Diesel. The mystery is solved, it was indeed excessive piston to bore clearance. The manual suggests between .002" and .003". I have between .006" an
- /html/spridgets/2000-11/msg00140.html (7,488 bytes)
- 2. Re: Piston to bore clearance (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:42:28 -0000
- hmm piston slap. a real bummer! it did not go away when it heated up huh? there were a lot of older(lots older) cars that had piston slap when cold but upon heating up (causing piston to expand in bo
- /html/spridgets/2000-11/msg00144.html (8,795 bytes)
- 3. Re: Piston to bore clearance (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:16:12 -0800
- Did you have them offset bore the block? If so, you should be able to go one final last size bigger on the pistons. Otherwise, the block is boat anchor material. Should you choose to reassemble and
- /html/spridgets/2000-11/msg00156.html (8,886 bytes)
- 4. Re: Piston to bore clearance (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:15:20 -0800
- Re: piston slap Have you considered having the piston skirts 'knurled'? Herb
- /html/spridgets/2000-11/msg00157.html (9,654 bytes)
- 5. Re: Piston to bore clearance (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:17:56 -0800
- ... or having the pistons 'buttoned' with teflon? I'd do pins and skits. WFO Herb
- /html/spridgets/2000-11/msg00159.html (9,660 bytes)
- 6. Piston to bore clearance (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 00:40:06 -0500
- As a possible fix, talk to them about knurling the piston skirts. Paul A Re: Piston to bore clearance Next installment in the Sprite that sounds like a Diesel. The mystery is solved, it was indeed e
- /html/spridgets/2000-11/msg00170.html (8,651 bytes)
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