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<blockquote data-quote="ossagp" data-source="post: 164048" data-attributes="member: 1650"><p>If you don't want to take yours to a shop you can check the wear by simply sliding a ring down the bore and use feeler gauges as you go to determine the wear by measuring the end gap change and doing the math. bore gauges are a lot easier to use, but if the shop is just doing it as a favor and isn't going to be selling you a piston you can't ask for them to do too much really. you could get close with my "Old" method. Usually what most home shops are looking for is how much of the plating is worn away. Check the dims on the skirt and see how much they have worn and or collapsed as well. One that has lost there is going to rock and rattle and have more chance of breaking the skirt. the rocking also causes the rings to wear faster as it takes the shoulder off sooner leaving a slightly rounder surface to seat against the cylinder. now might be a good time to find another cylinder that could be replated if you are going to keep this one very long. you can lose a month really easily waiting for a cylinder to go slow boat off to be replated and come back. or you can spend a couple of hundred dollars to send it fast and have a week to ten days at the replater, if you send it stateside. I just remember what a friend in England ended up with as far as downtime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ossagp, post: 164048, member: 1650"] If you don't want to take yours to a shop you can check the wear by simply sliding a ring down the bore and use feeler gauges as you go to determine the wear by measuring the end gap change and doing the math. bore gauges are a lot easier to use, but if the shop is just doing it as a favor and isn't going to be selling you a piston you can't ask for them to do too much really. you could get close with my "Old" method. Usually what most home shops are looking for is how much of the plating is worn away. Check the dims on the skirt and see how much they have worn and or collapsed as well. One that has lost there is going to rock and rattle and have more chance of breaking the skirt. the rocking also causes the rings to wear faster as it takes the shoulder off sooner leaving a slightly rounder surface to seat against the cylinder. now might be a good time to find another cylinder that could be replated if you are going to keep this one very long. you can lose a month really easily waiting for a cylinder to go slow boat off to be replated and come back. or you can spend a couple of hundred dollars to send it fast and have a week to ten days at the replater, if you send it stateside. I just remember what a friend in England ended up with as far as downtime. [/QUOTE]
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