<VV> Mistery on oil fouled plugs

[Daniel Monasterio]

Hi Mark,Both cylinder walls are are bright and shiny, no pits and no brown burned areas. They look just fine.Some ring ends were out of position but, not on the lower side nor aligned between rings.Yes, I took out the #1 piston rings and checked them in the cylinder. Got 0.015"-0.016" on compression rings and 0.021" on both oil rings.
Thanks for answering
Daniel Monasterio
> From: 62vair at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:34:25 -0700
> Subject: RE: <VV> Mistery on oil fouled plugs
> To: dmonasterio at hotmail.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> 
> Daniel, one more thing to look at. OK, several. All cylinder bores
> should be bright and shiny with the cross hatch, no pits in the
> cylinder walls, and no brown burned in areas, either. these may be
> towards the top of the ring travel and probably not go all the way
> around. Are the cylinders round? You will see this in variations of the
> cross hatch and the coloration of the cylinder walls.
> Did you happen to notice the position of the end gaps when you pulled
> the cylinders off? And, how did you decide your end gaps were still
> correct? Did you take the rings off the pistons and put them in the
> cylinders? Mark Durham
>