[T3] new pistons

[Keith Park]

Not only do they have to be balanced, you need to remove the pistons to
clean them and scrub down the cylinders to remove any materials from the
honing process, everything must be pristine clean and freshly oiled.  You
then need to remove the rings and check the ring end gap, so often Ive seen
this out of spec on "new" matched parts.

Some important things to remember, any NOS stuff still out there is often
out there for a reason, it was defective in some way and got shelved.
Sometimes that defect is minor sometimes it's a show stopper.  The new stuff
out there is mostly Crap, I wouldn't trust ANY Of it without carefully going
thru it and I wouldn't use any of the Chinese stuff.

Ive been bitten too many times when I WAS trying to be thorough!

Keith


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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of ken2k
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 1:58 PM
To: type3-vwtype3.org at lists.vwtype3.org
Subject: [T3] new pistons

do new pistons have to be balanced? i hate to take them out of the cylinder
and have to deal with getting them back in. they are standard issue from mid
america. thx kk
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