RE: V6 Rebuild/Upgrade - Update

From: Rick Barnes (barnesrv@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 13:16:07 EDT


Holy crap, that is a bunch of broken rings...amazing that they stayed in the
grooves.

Rascal

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Bernd D.
Ratsch
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:59 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: V6 Rebuild/Upgrade - Update

Well, got the call from the machine shop on the status and cause of failure:

(1) Cylinders 1,3,2,and 6 all had busted rings (luckily they were all just
hanging onto the ring grooves on the pistons)
(2) Crank has a very minor groove on the #1 journal (can be easily polished
out)

Hehehehehe...running a 15 second 1/4 mile on 4 3/4 cylinders...yeah baby!

New pistons are already being weighed and matched, rings just arrived today
(gapless), and the engine should be reassembled by the middle of next week.
Head porting and cleanup being done as well.

- Bernd



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