Re: 345 block

["Matt and Stacy Sopher" <sopher@domain.elided>]

When rebuilding VW air cooled motors, each piston had a > on them, and you
would install them with the > facing the flywheel. Maybe, just maybe, you
have to be able to read the "A" so the piston is in right. Just a thought.
Matt Sopher
-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Landry <jlandry@domain.elided>
To: garry@domain.elided <garry@domain.elided>
Cc: ihc@domain.elided <ihc@domain.elided>
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: 345 block


>When the truth serum kicked in, garry@domain.elided (Garry R. Mauldin II)
blurted
>out...
>
>>if you have the heads off, looking at the top end of the cylinders,
>>the markings are right below the cylinder holes
>>the markings go in order from front to back
>>A   C   A   C
>>
>>A   B   A   B
>
>OK Garry,
>
>I think I have another clue as to what these mean...
>
>Do you still have the original pistons for this block?
>
>I looking closer, I see that each of my pistons is stamped with the exact
size
>letter "A" as the block by each cylinder.  A I mentioned in an earlier
post,
>all my cylinders are marked with the "A".
>
>I suspect you may find your pistons marked the same as your cylinder marks.
>If so, the letters probably indicate some sort of piston to cylinder fit
>tolerance.
>
>Just a guess!
>
>John L.
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