Christopher Bridge writes:
> 
> Well, there are a multitude of things: 1) what is the CR? 

Not sure, but it is low.  The pistons I bought were dished.

> 							    2) even new parts 
> are sometimes are not going to work right.  I got 4 rebuilt rods for my last 
> rebuild, and not a one was even close to straight.  I think that bend rods 
> are a real bad thing to have.  

I'm confident that my rods are okay, cause my friend at the machine shop
spent a lot of time making sure they weighed exactly the same, and were
straight.  Not sure about all of the other parts, though.

Thanks for the comments...

-David

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