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Thanks for checking up on my G.
I just saw this thread now. Yes these 2 ring pistons are not any good as I see it so far. Knowing they are only 2 compression rings instead of 3, that had me concerned from the start.
To better clarify what 74M35A2 said, the truck ran good for about a week, up there with about how the LDS runs in my M109A3. Then I started getting lots of blow by where you could see it in the headlights when I stopped at a light. I need to inspect the piston rings to make sure they were installed correctly from the factory. I never checked them because they were already installed by the factory... i would think they put them on correctly. So anybody going to put these piston kits in their truck, check that first. we'll see how mine are when I pull them out this weekend. Hindsight, since my pistons were in fine shape that i pulled out, I should have just put rings on them and just honed the cylinders. Im sure I would have been ahead of the game. I cant see why burning WMO would hurt the engine. These pistons should be designed for the multifuel capability and withstand everything that the data plate on the dash says. Lots of people out there have been using WMO for fuel for years and have not had any problems. When I first put it together and drove it, I had about 40% diesel in the tank, 5% gasoline and 50% WMO. No settings on he truck deviate from stock settings other than the fuel turned up. I cant see how any of that matters because I did it for years and never had a problem, ever. Now i rebuild it and have the same problem within a week? That's terrible. I cant wait to see what these pistons and rings look like this weekend. I do not think they are the latest and greatest pistons as of right now.
I'm not bitter at all, am I?
I just saw this thread now. Yes these 2 ring pistons are not any good as I see it so far. Knowing they are only 2 compression rings instead of 3, that had me concerned from the start.
To better clarify what 74M35A2 said, the truck ran good for about a week, up there with about how the LDS runs in my M109A3. Then I started getting lots of blow by where you could see it in the headlights when I stopped at a light. I need to inspect the piston rings to make sure they were installed correctly from the factory. I never checked them because they were already installed by the factory... i would think they put them on correctly. So anybody going to put these piston kits in their truck, check that first. we'll see how mine are when I pull them out this weekend. Hindsight, since my pistons were in fine shape that i pulled out, I should have just put rings on them and just honed the cylinders. Im sure I would have been ahead of the game. I cant see why burning WMO would hurt the engine. These pistons should be designed for the multifuel capability and withstand everything that the data plate on the dash says. Lots of people out there have been using WMO for fuel for years and have not had any problems. When I first put it together and drove it, I had about 40% diesel in the tank, 5% gasoline and 50% WMO. No settings on he truck deviate from stock settings other than the fuel turned up. I cant see how any of that matters because I did it for years and never had a problem, ever. Now i rebuild it and have the same problem within a week? That's terrible. I cant wait to see what these pistons and rings look like this weekend. I do not think they are the latest and greatest pistons as of right now.
I'm not bitter at all, am I?