[Mgs] Removing Carbon Build Up on Piston Heads

[frank]

I have that tool and it has several different ring groove sizes. I always 
preferred the broken ring as long as you managed to wrap it in something so 
you didn't cut the crap out of your hand!
Frank Krajewski
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RampantNM at aol.com>
Cc: <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:05 PM
Subject: [Mgs] Removing Carbon Build Up on Piston Heads


> In a message dated 2/18/2008 5:17:21 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> frankk at intap.net writes:
>
> The  broken ring is used to scrape carbon out of the ring grooves. It has
> been  done for years.
> Frank Krajewski
>
>
> They used to make a tool for that, but you had to be really careful not to
> enlarge the ring grooves in the pistons.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert B. Houston
>
> 74.5 MGBGT
> 73 MG  Midget
>
> As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual  Skinners Union
> carburetors in his vintage MG, highly functional yet  pleasingly formed,
> perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for  experienced 
> hands,
> the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be  inspected and
> adjusted as
> described in chapter seven of the Haynes shop  manual.