Wanna share your recipe?
Got my pistons and rods NASA clean for install tomorrow. I've always used the same sort of "recipe" since I was a kid. Far as I know I've always had a good ring seal.
So of course after pistons and rods are clean, I use lacquer thinner on paper towel in the cylinders until they come out darn near white. Then I switch to a lint free white towel, rag, t shirt...whatever I know is lint free.
Last 15 years it's been these real nice white OR towels. Once they come out pure white and clean I'm done cleaning.
Next I coat the cyls lightly with WD40. Very lightly oil ring grooves before the rings go on then a couple drops on the skirts. That's it for me. It's worked out.
I know everyone has different ideas and thought it might be interesting to see what else we do. I knew a guy years ago that smeared the old STP all over everything. Swore by it. Guess it worked for him.
So what do you do?
Got my pistons and rods NASA clean for install tomorrow. I've always used the same sort of "recipe" since I was a kid. Far as I know I've always had a good ring seal.
So of course after pistons and rods are clean, I use lacquer thinner on paper towel in the cylinders until they come out darn near white. Then I switch to a lint free white towel, rag, t shirt...whatever I know is lint free.
Last 15 years it's been these real nice white OR towels. Once they come out pure white and clean I'm done cleaning.
Next I coat the cyls lightly with WD40. Very lightly oil ring grooves before the rings go on then a couple drops on the skirts. That's it for me. It's worked out.
I know everyone has different ideas and thought it might be interesting to see what else we do. I knew a guy years ago that smeared the old STP all over everything. Swore by it. Guess it worked for him.
So what do you do?