as in can ya take em out the bottom or not ????

was talking to someone and he says ya can but im sure i was told there fluted so ya cant

 

Lad if ya dont know this your more dangerous than IMA on building engines,leave well alone

 

 

They come out the side if you drive it hard enough!

 

 

ginge what have you done???
and to think i used to trust ya!!

 

Push them out of the top only!

If you pull them out of the bottom, then the rings expand and you crant then get them past the main bearing casts........unless you break all the rings off etc.

Out the top Ginge m8

 

there's nothing on the pistons to stop them coming out either way - it's the block

 

APMSL

 

ginge is u can get a stand, and i can clear enough room in the garage, and my block and tackle turns up do u wanna rip ur engine out next weekend or somehting?
im bored of ur cossie not running

 

hey this was a convo i had at 3am this morning

i as saying that they only go in the top as there fluted and ya cant fit em in the bottom

as for more dangerous , ive never built a engine, so whats that got to do with ima

i test things and in all honesty i do enough research to know if it will or wont work

ive drilled a CPS, fist time ive ever drilled into cast iron adn the first time ive actually used a centre punch and the fooker works spot on


ive also converted a mfo head to efi wioth non addaptor plate and after a few teething troubles ive sorted that too

not bad from a self tought person

infact i had fletch show me how to take a engine out ONCE and ive done a few since then, also managed to semi spec a engine with advice and fellow members help as well that we will see if that works for a small budget

so as for where that comes from i dont know


also i have never blown a engine up since i was 20 and all work ive done on me car has be hassle free ( except a few bolts beiing a coooont and cowboi having to take em out as hes good at that )

so yet again cheers for the shitty comments for no reason

btw i also managed to think fo a brake idea and get brom to make em and they seem to be fine , john aint hit any cones in his car yet


and didnt your old engine you built drop a valve , does that mean your engine built was shite , or is that a teething issues that ya resolved

 

to answer your question with some civility, the pistons will only come out the top as the main brg castings would foul the piston if you tried to remove it from the bottom!
It doesn't have anything to do with bores being 'fluted'(not actually sure what you mean there). The bore are in fact tapered, however the taper runs from bottom to top i.e larger at the bottom than they are at the top.....so they would actually go in easier from the bottom (if the main bearing castings were not in the way)

HTH
Pugo

 

Silly me,a double post,must spank myself several times with a feather duster.

 

A complex subject,of course a piston will come out either way,it would be the block that stops its tracks as the kind Sir foreigneRS said earlier on.Best to really avoid all known hassle by extracting from the top.

Cheers.

 

Nobody was taking the piss out of you Tim doctored a reply that wasn't from me, but it was funny!

Don't take life so seriously

 

You mardy focker time of the month again lad?

 

 

thats what i ment by fluted, tapered is the correct term though

so i was right but also wrong and my mate was wrong but kind of right

tim i wasnt being funny just didnt think that reply was of any benifit in anyway tom what i asked

if you asked a question and the reply was " if ya asking then ya too stupid to attempt"

how would you take that

i dont take live seriously and am infact very very relaxed and chilled out !!!!

but i dont appreciate being classed as a idiot for all others to assume it aswell who dont know me

 

ya gotta love cvh rods and rod bolts

but that was done with class

the best one was a guy on here who threw the no3 rod, hit the started and that got ripped off with the gearbox belhousing too

thats doing a job proper

 

and didnt your old engine you built drop a valve , does that mean your engine built was shite , or is that a teething issues that ya resolved

That was me driving like a tit on the limiter (even though they told me to keep away from it lol) that did that and Karl did the head not me lol
Yes things are now changed but it dont mean i wont do another
And they come out the top as the bore aint finished at the bottom

 

Really???? I thought i was unlucky!!!

My head luckily only bent one valve, and even the rad survived the battering of the rod and bits of block thrown at it