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Brickyard wrote:Pistons slid into cylinders like butter
Squealing noise around stator and slow return to idles
Thanks for clarifying with the Honda spec Ed. I was going from memory. When I did a 160 motor for a fella I looked in my Glenn's Honda book for Head torque values and noticed it had 305 torque values also. It had 6-9 ft/lbs for crankcase 6mm bolts. 6-8 ft/lbs stuck in my head from that. I just hand tighten the 6mm case bolts and nuts by feel. The last thing anybody wants to do is strip the soft case threads on a bolt! HT
Good find Tom. ..................lm
Decided to take 2 steps back vs pushing forward because if G, LM or HT had known of these issues, they would've had me fix them.
First: I never cleaned up my cylinder walls. In the right, problematic cylinder, theres a little more going on then I can just ignore. I think the metal bit protruding may be from the bad right piston. I'm going to have these professionally cleaned up, but what do I tell the machinist I need? Keep in mind the new piston and rings are not oversized. Second: What I thought was a stretching case bolt was actually the threads in the upper case being stripped out. After putting a missing washer on the bolt and attempting to re install the bolt, it spun freely, and I ended up pulling the threading out with the bolt. The little devil on my should is saying "eh, dont worry about it, the starter motor is holding this corner of the cases together." How would you fix? While I wait for answers, I'm going to get this little guy on the road. The neighbor kids are going to go nuts when its done!
That looks to be aluminum!?
Ya may want to try what we did with racing 2 strokes that seized a piston. Using a good pair of rubber gloves and rag we applied straight MURIATIC ACID to remove the aluminum from the steel then washed with dish soap and lots of water. Followed with a BALL STONE HONE. ............lm
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