hi, piston wobble is more than likely due to worn rings, its best to measure with a set of snap gauges, then use a verniers to measure that.
mark k ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:13 AM Subject: dato finally on road. > Hi list, well my 1600 is finally on the road! It took meover a year of > fixing it up and it's still a piece of shit! Oh well, at least there are a > lot of things I can do to improve it myself,that's why I bought it. I pulled > out the L16 the other day because I was getting too much pressure in the > water system and there were bubbles when the engine was running looking into > the radiator, apparent theat the head gasket was stuffed. I put in an l20b > from a freinds crashed bluebird and it did the same thing so I removed the > head. The gasket looked pretty fine so I am stumped. I plan on getting the > head recoed but want to check for bore wear while I'm at it. How should I do > this? the pistons giggle from side to side a bit, how much should they do > this? Thanks > Thomas. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
