Meteor Piston, opinions please

[CWME]

Brand new piston, pulled it out of the box to find this... To my rookie eye this thing is junk. What say the experts please.

OEM on left, Meteor on right

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[lone wolf]

They run good in 3 of my saws for a year now comp still up.

 

[CWME]

They run good in 3 of my saws for a year now comp still up.

Do yours look like the one in the photo?

 

[lone wolf]

Do yours look like the one in the photo?

It was a year ago I measured them when I got them they were good.They looked good too.What are you saying they look sloppy?

 

[tlandrum]

send that piston back.the meteor piston are usually pretty much a drop in oem replacement. they generally have very good fit and finish to them. your piston is lacking.

 

[CWME]

It was a year ago I measured them when I got them they were good.They looked good too.What are you saying they look sloppy?

Piston skirts are not full size like the OEM piston. Rough casting and not even to say the least.

 

[komatsuvarna]

send that piston back.the meteor piston are usually pretty much a drop in oem replacement. they generally have very good fit and finish to them. your piston is lacking.

yeah I agree! Some machining/casting boo boos on that one. Every one Ive installed were top notch!

 

[lone wolf]

Piston skirts are not full size like the OEM piston. Rough casting and not even to say the least.

Maybe they are outsourcing them now when i got mine a year or more ago the were nice.

 

[CWME]

Thanks for the replies guys. I have sent an e-mail to Northwood Saws about the issue.

 

[timmcat]

It looks like the casting flash held onto the piston a little better than it should when they broke it out of the mold. I'd send it back, your investing time to rebuild/mod that saw, isn't your time and effort worth more than using a questionable piston? Who knows, maybe the metalurgy throughout the whole piston is wrong. You'll be pretty pissed off if it disintegrates inside your freshly ported cylinder.

 

[hammerstrap]

I just put a meteor in a 028 super two weeks ago. It was absolutely flawless. I asked about a piston from my stihl dealer and it had a stihl tag on a meteor box so I ordered it from northwood saw for a third of the price.

 

[jus2fat]

I spent 18 years in QC (now QA) for the largest plant of an international company.

We had a first inspection and then a second inspection of the first inspection.

That piston should have never left the production plant if QA was on it's toes..!!!!

Meteor is screwing itself by letting parts like this out the door..!!!!

Bad new travels fast..!!!!

J2F

 

[CWME]

Well hopefully Northwood sets me up with a good one and this will be another bump in the road. Disappointed but I will live

 

[angelo c]

Well hopefully Northwood sets me up with a good one and this will be another bump in the road. Disappointed but I will live

Guys,
I posted about this a while back and the general concensus was no big deal. I sent a few sets back to Baileys and they all came back with the exact same skirt "issue". I eventually called Sal at Northwood and he sent me an Epesian and it was fine. Long story short, I kept a "meteor" set because I paid for it and didn't feel like shipping it back and used one in a MS360 i picked up recently. It runs fine, no problem under tree service full time abuse.
So my completely unprofessional oppinion is that the Meteor with the bad skirts looks like a "hussie" but runs like its supposed to . I'll let you know when it grenades it self and I have to swap an OEM back in...

 

[tlandrum]

send a pm to grande dog and he will get those nasty looking pistons took care of.

 

[Somesawguy]

While some are saying that would be ok, I'd be apprehensive about it as well. It looks like the mold didn't fill out completely.

 

[mowoodchopper]

Meteor, Have done a good job for me, nice pistons for the price, Now I ordered a golf ONE time, it went back, terrible

 

[parrisw]

Ya, just send it back. Ya know sometimes **** happens, everyone has a slip up now and then.

 

[vw_motorsports]

I like using Meteor pistons, you can also get them in A or B versions to match the cylinder perfectly. I believe they come with Caber rings as well. To me as long as the skirt width, diameter, crown height is with in spec, you can trim the extra flash off and run it. How many open window pistons get modified anyway?

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

My first thought was the wrist pin was too long.....then I read others comments and started to look at the casting...

Have you tried it in the cylinder? How is the height from the pin to the top? How's the over all height?