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Old 04-18-2003, 02:58 PM
leathermang leathermang is offline
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Good pistons are not generally made round. They are made oval due to the difference in the expansion rate between the direction that the wrist pin is and 90 degrees to that...
If one put in a round piston, and it expanded normally it might wear an oval pattern in the bore....
Or someone might have measured a piston and found it was oval , not knowing it was intentional, and assumed something from it...
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