Re: Piston Slap?????

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199811041308.IAA0000227782@hunch.zk3.dec.com> Andrew Duane USG writes:

> I had piston slap on my '85 Golf, straight from the factory.
> The term refers to "loose" pistons slapping against the
> sides of the cylinder bore. It sounds a lot like knocking
> or something rattling in the engine.  In my case, it was because
> the *!&@#^*!&@#^!@ factory put the WRONG PISTONS into an entire
> model year's worth of engines. They were 1 size too small.

The version I heard was that some Time & Motion freak discovered they
were actually using three sub-sizes of piston (small, medium, large)
to compensate for boring tolerances.  He cut out the "medium" size.

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