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> There are certain important factors that you need to know when doing
> any machine work -
> eg - each cylinder has to be re-bored for a specific piston. If you
> get oversize pistons of say +.010 and re-bore the cylinder using +.010,
> that does not mean that the piston will fit !!!!!. You have no guarantee
> that the piston is perfectly round !. Therefore the cylinder has to be
> re-bored to match a specific piston.
That must be one fancy boring bar, to bore out oval cylinders to match those
not-perfectly-round pistons :).
Actually, pistons are NOT ROUND. They are OVAL. They only become round
when they heat up to operating temperature.
- Jerry Kaidor
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