Did an abrassives study years ago ,as part of a glass company research job.
Bon -Ami was the most abrasive cleanser known at the time. It has lots of
glass frit in it. DO NOT USE IT IN A TR3!!!!!!!!!!!! MAYBE AN M.G. (Also
don't use it on your coffee cup glass ovenware)
T.R. Householder
Triumph Register Of America.
At 11:03 AM 10/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:21:58 -0700 Geo Hahn <geohahn@azstarnet.com>
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> >I have heard of people putting a half teaspoon of Bon Ami in each
>>cylinder>as an aid to getting the rings to seat. Have no idea if that
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>>good>idea... just what I heard. Anyone tried this?
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>>Geo Hahn
>>59 TR3A
>First let me say I have only built one wet lined TR motor (a TR4 motor)
>but I have built several other motors, including TR6, MGB, XJ6, Stag and
>Spitfire engines. (All my own cars) I once had a similar problem with
>rings not seating. I have heard of the Bon Ami trick as an old racers
>trick, but that would be on engines that were being stripped down after a
>few races. If the problem is rings that have not seated, just running the
>car should eventually seat the rings. If the motor has lots of
>miles/hours of running time and still no compression, then I would think
>that some of the rings may have broken or there is another reason that
>the compression is bad like a bad valve. BTW, the "fix" only uses Bon Ami
>because it does not contain large particle abrasives. NEVER use Comet if
>you are brave enough to try this. IMHO, I would NEVER put an abrasive in
>my motor on purpose.
>Larry Miceli
>Gold Coast Triumph Club
>Pompano Beach, Florida
>'73 Stag
>'66 Herald
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