[SEL] Piston Size Needed for John Ames Stover

Skip Landis skipl130 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 22 11:51:31 PDT 2006


paul, i think you would have to lengthen the rod by the difference in the old & new deck height to maintajn the compression ratio. the rod is steel or maliable iron, so adding a piece won't be a problem.  skip

Paul Maples <paulmaples at sbcglobal.net> wrote:  Thanks Skip I Have forwarded this information to John. Do you think it might 
work?

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skip Landis" 
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Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Piston Size Needed for John Ames Stover


> paul' i have a piston 5" by 5 3/4. 3 3/4 deck height with a 1 1/4 wrist 
> pin hole. skip
>
> Paul Maples 
wrote: Ok gang I now have all of 
> the necessary dimensions (I think) of the piston size that John Ames needs 
> for his 3 HP Stover:
>
> Diameter - 5.00 inches
> Height - 8.00 inches
> Wrist Pin Diameter - 1.375 inches
> Distance from center of wrist pin to top of piston - 4.500 inches
> The piston had (3) .375 inch rings.
>
> 

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