okay im working on putting my briggs 5hp back together, just had it rebored to .010 oversize, guy had it cleaned and honed as well.
Oiled everything up, piston, rings, more than enough in the cylinder. I got it in there but it's REALLY tight, I had to put the flywheel on all the way to rotate it.
after I finally got it all the way down I poured about 1/16 (maybe less) oil on the piston and continued to rotate it up and down and the oil quickly filled up with metal dust. so I cleaned it out, put another small puddle on top and continued. 4 or 5 more times.
currently it sits with the puddle of oil/metal dust mix and the cylinder had the vertical scoring, its all just about cosmetic though because it feels smooth running my fingernail over them. the piston is still tight enough as if it had been on the compression stroke but the thing isnt even put together yet... I hope to god I didn't screw something up already. :facepalm:
any ideas? :shrug:
EDIT: the title was supposed to be "piston too tight" but whatever.. :doah:
Oiled everything up, piston, rings, more than enough in the cylinder. I got it in there but it's REALLY tight, I had to put the flywheel on all the way to rotate it.
after I finally got it all the way down I poured about 1/16 (maybe less) oil on the piston and continued to rotate it up and down and the oil quickly filled up with metal dust. so I cleaned it out, put another small puddle on top and continued. 4 or 5 more times.
currently it sits with the puddle of oil/metal dust mix and the cylinder had the vertical scoring, its all just about cosmetic though because it feels smooth running my fingernail over them. the piston is still tight enough as if it had been on the compression stroke but the thing isnt even put together yet... I hope to god I didn't screw something up already. :facepalm:
any ideas? :shrug:
EDIT: the title was supposed to be "piston too tight" but whatever.. :doah:
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