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83 Maxim 400 piston replacement
- Thread starter montechoate
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Must be nice to be able to drop the motor like that. I'm jealous.
nice! good progress 
Nice Looks pretty easy to remove the engine,the pistons look pretty clean why are you taking the engine apart?
montechoate
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I have a theory that the rings went bad on one side. I think I was getting blowby & that was causing high case pressure & forcing oil out of the clutch rod seal, if not forcing the seal out all together. So now that I have another vehicle & a full time job, I figured, "Why not big bore the bitch instead of just having the cylinder's honed & rings replaced?"
One of those pistons has some gnarly pitting on it, not sure how that happened.
One of those pistons has some gnarly pitting on it, not sure how that happened.
