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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / Fairbanks Verticals
« on: May 08, 2011, 11:38:49 AM »
As an update, one of the engines failed to gain enough compression to run as it should after a couple of seasons of it being at shows. I distinctly remember telling myself I didn't need to check the cylinder taper-it looked good enough. Well, I dismantled it a month ago and found .018 thousands taper. Off it went to the machine shop and had a sleeve inserted. Now and a couple of hundred $ later it runs as it should. Got lazy and took a shortcut and ultimately paid for it....