Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Dammit

 

When I worked in a rebuild shop, we always used the old pistons unless there was damage. New rings, knurled them to hold o1il better, cleaned the carbon out, everything else new - but used the old cleaned up pistons which seemingly were in good shape. Course that was on Ford, Chrysler, & GM engines with lower compression issues.
 
brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K)  Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's
From: briankk <briankk@att.net>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Dammit

 
Not quite a decade ago, I was quoted ~$900 for a set of 5 new pistons.  Fortunately, I didn't need them.  I did have a long conversation with a shop in Belmont, CA, (up on the SF peninsula), about re-sleeving the engine, they'd done several.  Said that you can usually re-use the stock pistons, which I regarded with a bit of suspicion.. Never needed to get the work done, still have a full set of sleeves, though.

bk

--- On Sat, 7/21/12, Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com>
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Dammit
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 8:10 PM

 

Well ;

We sleeved the cylinder block , they're not wet liners so it's a bit complicated .

He hunted around his massive stock and found a nice set of good used std. pistons , they sure are expen$ive ! .

-Nate
Nate R. wrote :
>
>
>
> Surely the Guy replaced liners and pistons too.Thats why a proper rebuild,or rebuilt cost so much.Liners are cheap,but the pistons cost too much.
> To Nate the rings still might have not seated yet.
>



__._,_.___
Recent Activity:
.

__,_._,___

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)