[SEL] Cylinder/piston questions

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In a message dated 5/30/2005 8:59:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
johnculp at chartertn.net writes:

<<  Tommy's suggested 
 fix of flame spraying the piston and turning it down to size would of 
 course allow machining proper ring grooves. >>


John,

Do the shops flame spray the ring grooves too?  It has been my experience and 
understanding that they spray the skirt only, and machine the ring grooves 
oversize as needed to clean them up and make oversize rings to fit.

Tom Schmutz
Concord, Va. USA
Germoamer at aol.com