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Subject:Re: Lapping cylinders to heads?
From:Paul Archibald
Date:Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:47:56 -0800

--- phil cain <bearsvw2000@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> I most likley am overstating it about lapping in the
> cylinders but the only one I ever had leak was the one
> that I didn't do, and it was new heads and cylinders,
> and brave me skipped the pressure test on compleation
> of assy because I thought it couldn't be bad because
> all of it was new. Well thats my story and I'm
> sticking to it. Phil
dang! and to think I had picked up a pair of used dusl-port
heade from a garage floor, cleaned up and installed on the
1600 in my bug back in '85...and had no problem at all in
the next 50,000 miles...heck it still runs strong...i
think...nto been run fro a dozen years or so now....

my Duc get special treatment, but all the rest are
experiments, and have no problem of not doing a complete
re-build like most do for bad rings on one
cylinder..etc...must be teh scots ancestry!  ;-)

Paul

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