Tight Piston Clearance, Not Model A

[tbirdtbird]

Mr Edmund Sir,
Apparently you are not familiar with engines that have scored due to overly tight clearances. In this shop, we are. Perhaps you need to start an overhaul shop and get your hands dirty working on trashed engines that people have ruined with their clearancing methods. Since you are having so much trouble with all this, perhaps it is time to remind you that we are not talking about modern vehicles with modern uniform cooling systems. We are talking about ancient vehicles with less than uniform cooling. Why not interview the man who has had a failed Model A engine rather than sparring with someone who fixes them? And as I also just said, you can set your clearances however tight you wish. No problem with me.

I recently spoke to a rebuilder who actually made this statement: "But everyone is having trouble with scoring in holes 3 & 4"
Then truly 'everyone' must be doing something very wrong since Henry certainly never had this problem. I will leave it to you to solve the problem of why this is so, since according to you my explanation is so utterly useless.

[edmondclinton]

Originally Posted by tbirdtbird

Mr Edmund Sir,
Apparently you are not familiar with engines that have scored due to overly tight clearances. In this shop, we are. Perhaps you need to start an overhaul shop and get your hands dirty working on trashed engines that people have ruined with their clearancing methods. Since you are having so much trouble with all this, perhaps it is time to remind you that we are not talking about modern vehicles with modern uniform cooling systems. We are talking about ancient vehicles with less than uniform cooling. Why not interview the man who has had a failed Model A engine rather than sparring with someone who fixes them? And as I also just said, you can set your clearances however tight you wish. No problem with me.

I recently spoke to a rebuilder who actually made this statement: "But everyone is having trouble with scoring in holes 3 & 4"
Then truly 'everyone' must be doing something very wrong since Henry certainly never had this problem. I will leave it to you to solve the problem of why this is so, since according to you my explanation is so utterly useless.

Not familiar???

Mr. Bird, I can assure you when it comes to engines you're telling Noah about the flood !

Moreover, the title of this thread is Tight Piston Clearance, NOT MODEL A