[T3] 73 T-3 oil temp?

William Jahn willjahn975 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 16:46:13 PDT 2021


That's for sure. It's been so long since 1997 I don't remember if the new
flat top pistons came to the top of the cylinders or not. Probably not ,
most likely stopped at the same point as the stock dished pistons or there
would only be the head chamber that's not enough. I'll have to look in the
old falling apart Bentley.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 4:32 PM Max Welton <max.welton.2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 4:38 PM William Jahn <willjahn975 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't check the deck or head chamber to compare them . I had to pull
> the
> > heads off the X engine because I needed the super cooling tin from the X
> > engine. I just eyeballed them. Both had the same head  numbers and are
> > stepped heads. It's been so long I don't remember the deck height . The
> > heads were so stuck on  the X engine I had a difficult time getting them
> > off . I just didn't compare them .  The 72 engine is a U5033105 73 is an
> > X0010758. I tried looking them up on Samba and couldn't really find
> > answers.
>
> Yeah, those are things you just have to measure. Knowing what they are
> "supposed" to be is useless.
>
> Max
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