Um, gents, I hope you have since adjusted the timing from being too
advanced and the mixture from being too lean.
Peter C
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At 09:17 AM 4/25/2000 , Dean Rayner wrote:
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>on 25/4/00 1:28 pm, Banbury, Terrence at Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us
>spoke forth:
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>>
>> Back in the mid '70's I had a Mark III 1296 rebuilt. After he had torn down
>> the engine, the rebuilder asked me if it ran before I brought it in. I said
>> yes, it ran fairly well, Blew a little oil, but since I had the rest of the
>> car torn apart I thought I'd just do the engine. He then handed me one of
>> the old pistons. On the side, there was a big gouge about the size of a
>> dime and a section of the some of the rings was missing! We bored it out a
>> little and rebuilt it with oversized pistons. Ran great. Makes me wonder
>> what my current Spit pistons look like?
>
>
>I rebuilt the engine on my MKIII last summer and every piston was worn like
>that. 2 or 3 'holes' on the sides of each piston. It ran OK though!!!
>Still good for 80mph. Burnt a little oil!!!!!
>
>It makes you wonder how bad it has to get before total failure!!
>
>Dean Rayner
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