I know better and I've read all the warnings......
I bought a large lot of ex dealer stock a couple weeks ago, and there was a whole box of new pistons, cylinder kits, etc. in the lot...All of it is the cheap aftermarket stuff, but I decided I might as well use it to bring some carcasses back to life. I just built a 365 Husky and used one of the pistons.....The saw fired right up with good compression and I was tuning it, when all of a sudden, BANG!!!
I would have sworn the ring locating pin was where it should have been, but now I'm not sure....It's pushed into the groove so deep, it was doing nothing.
I got lucky and there is virtually no damage to the port where the ring caught......I'll be touchign up the chamfer in the port and putting a Meteor in tomorrow.
I bought a large lot of ex dealer stock a couple weeks ago, and there was a whole box of new pistons, cylinder kits, etc. in the lot...All of it is the cheap aftermarket stuff, but I decided I might as well use it to bring some carcasses back to life. I just built a 365 Husky and used one of the pistons.....The saw fired right up with good compression and I was tuning it, when all of a sudden, BANG!!!
I would have sworn the ring locating pin was where it should have been, but now I'm not sure....It's pushed into the groove so deep, it was doing nothing.
I got lucky and there is virtually no damage to the port where the ring caught......I'll be touchign up the chamfer in the port and putting a Meteor in tomorrow.