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Posted by Albrecht via MotorcycleKB.com on May 6, 2007, 11:25 pm
lugnut wrote:
> Once I got all of the oil off
>the cylinder surface, I found a crack all the way around the
>#2 cylinder in the area where the rings would be at BDC. It
>appears the cylinder liner is now in upper and lower pieces
>and opens up at the crack when it warms up a bit catching
>the ring enough to sound like a loud piston slap.
This is the second time in a week that I've heard of cylinder liners cracking
and hanging up the piston ring. It makes me wonder about stress and corrosion
in cast iron...
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