Grilled piston for dinner? LOL

Royse · Jul 18, 2013

Got most of the parts in for the golf cart.
Was warming the piston up while the pin was in the freezer.
Slid right in! Still missing one gasket to get it going.
(It's the lighting, the piston was [i:9efd9de8d1]maybe[/i:9efd9de8d1] 250 degrees)

Rick Kr · Jul 18, 2013

Since the grille was hot, you did throw a few dogs or burgers on there right?

Rick

Royse · Jul 18, 2013

(quoted from post at 23:48:24 07/18/13) Since the grille was hot, you did throw a few dogs or burgers on there right?

Rick

Absolutely! Wouldn't want to waste all that heat!
Specially since it was only, what, 97 today?

Rick Kr · Jul 18, 2013

Yeah you bet its smoking hot, asphalt road temp at work today was 137F.

Was thinking of wrapping my lunch in tin foil and cooking it on the road.

Came home worked on the camper for a while, thermometer said 86F at 9pm. Went inside and ate half a box of the kids ice cream sandwiches.

Rick

Texasmark1 · Jul 19, 2013

Is that a ceramic piston? I have heard about some engine mfgrs of
varied disciplines considering ceramic parts which are supposed to
run cooler. If so, that's the first I have seen of them.

Mark

SDE · Jul 19, 2013

When the temp got to under 90, I started the 400 and pulled a stump out. I could not drink enough fluids when I got back in the house.
SDE

Royse · Jul 19, 2013

(quoted from post at 01:18:24 07/19/13) Is that a ceramic piston? I have heard about some engine mfgrs of
varied disciplines considering ceramic parts which are supposed to
run cooler. If so, that's the first I have seen of them.

Mark

Not ceramic, from the weight I think its aluminum or an alloy.
Just bad lighting on the picture, made it look white hot to me.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2013

The pin should slide in without heating anything.It has to be free when cold or hot or your going to have trouble.

RN · Jul 19, 2013

That sort of looks like a top Dykes ring 2 stroke piston- the wrist pin would be firm in piston wile the rod's ball or roller bearings get a bit of slack. Used to do the same drill for VW beetle heads when replaceing valve guides- head in oven, guides in freezer

Royse · Jul 19, 2013

RN - It is a two stroke piston, roller bearings in the connecting rod.

Mike.ind. - the pin is actually free once you get it past the tapered
part of the hole in the piston. Pressing it through that hole without
warming it up bends/warps the piston. Snap rings keep it in there.
It is free to move once assembled and cool.

Grilled piston for dinner? LOL

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