Good afternoon all
I bought this machine with engine problems. After getting it apart the right (chain case side) piston skirt was trashed. Amazingly the cylinder looks fine. No deep scratches. there are a few dings in the bottom of the cylinder but they appear to be visual..I cant feel a thing. So Im going to take the engine out and split the case to clean and inspect the bottom end. This machine supposedly only has 168 miles..i know I cant hardly believe that either.. anyways would you reccomend I just put a oem piston back in? or replace both? The other cylinder looks fine. Im not 100% sure i need to replace the rings on the bad side with the skirt gone. So is this a steel cylinder or is the that nickel coating on it? Would I run a hone down it or not?
Thanks
I bought this machine with engine problems. After getting it apart the right (chain case side) piston skirt was trashed. Amazingly the cylinder looks fine. No deep scratches. there are a few dings in the bottom of the cylinder but they appear to be visual..I cant feel a thing. So Im going to take the engine out and split the case to clean and inspect the bottom end. This machine supposedly only has 168 miles..i know I cant hardly believe that either.. anyways would you reccomend I just put a oem piston back in? or replace both? The other cylinder looks fine. Im not 100% sure i need to replace the rings on the bad side with the skirt gone. So is this a steel cylinder or is the that nickel coating on it? Would I run a hone down it or not?
Thanks