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Offline fabr

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Spirolox-Love/Hate
« on: June 23, 2013, 07:23:06 PM »
I know these things are the most reliable piston pin retention there is but they SUCK!  I've installed hundreds and hundreds. Hated each and every one of them. THEN comes removing the little mother e****s !!  They are easy as can be to install/remove from a regular shallow bore but the irregular area around a piston pin added to the fricken depth it sits makes the things damn near impossible to work with. OK,bitch session over................... ;D ;D 

  Here's a few pics of the buried place the spirolox lives in and the JE 14:1 pistons hung on Oliver 6" stroker rods. MY ring end gap grinder/filer took a shit after 20 years,of course, now that I'm just needing to do another set or 2. Oh well, new one should be here Tuesday.

    Finally,there's a pic of how disappointing Clevite special race bearings come looking like. It is how they are supposed to look though. They don't put the tin coating on them.
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Offline BDKW1

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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2013, 08:36:04 PM »
And then they go "sproing" and disappear somewhere in the shop behind you..........

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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2013, 09:50:00 PM »
Well,after doing several hundred that doesn't happen now but, yes , it happens. And there is always exactly the right number sent with the pistons without a single spare.
"There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American,
but something else also, isn't an American at all.  We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is
the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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 " You have all the right in the world to believe any damn thing you'd like, but you don't have the right to demand that I agree with your fantasy"

Offline fastcorvairs

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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2013, 05:07:24 AM »
One of them love hate relationships. 

If I believe I cannot do something it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe that I can, then I acquire the ability to do it , even if I didn't have it at the beginning.

Offline Carlriddle

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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2013, 06:32:06 AM »
Havn't done rings in years and that was 2-smoke stuff.  But looks like the C-clips one the end of 930 axle, just a bit bigger.  Still got one of those little clips hiding back here somewhere.  Worse than find waldo.  bs1
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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2013, 07:00:31 AM »
Not cussing the oil ring support rail,it's the fricken piston pin spirolox that are the sh*ts!
"There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American,
but something else also, isn't an American at all.  We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is
the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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 " You have all the right in the world to believe any damn thing you'd like, but you don't have the right to demand that I agree with your fantasy"

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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2013, 07:03:29 AM »
These little effers.



If only it were that easy in an irregular entry ,deep seated groove,pin bore. LOL!!!!!!!!!
"There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American,
but something else also, isn't an American at all.  We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is
the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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 " You have all the right in the world to believe any damn thing you'd like, but you don't have the right to demand that I agree with your fantasy"

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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2013, 08:06:05 AM »
I read what you typed after I looked at pics and replyed.  Typical man way; act first then read directions if I need too.  ;D
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Re: Spirolox-Love/Hate
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2013, 09:13:08 AM »
I'm not very manly. I always read instructions first.
"There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American,
but something else also, isn't an American at all.  We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is
the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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 " You have all the right in the world to believe any damn thing you'd like, but you don't have the right to demand that I agree with your fantasy"

 

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