FINALLY ordered some pistons- a complete set with rings and wrist pins. Country brand- from ebay dealer that I had ordered from before.
They got in, all shiny- and the next week they went to Blaines motor supply in Dallas (come down Dolphin road from I-30- it's a little safer) to get the new wrist pins pressed into the rods.
They got that accomplished for the princely sum of $32.
I had visions of sugarplums thinking that the engine would be halfway done by 4pm.
When I get home (after they cooled a bit -there's a blowtorch that expands the top of the connecting rod- then they press out the wrist pin) the rings started going on. Still happy as a clam until...
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Jaw dropping- In disbelief it went to the block - the standard size non- ringed one slid in - the 030 piston slid in to the wrist pin. That's it.
Contacted the ebay seller with the issue and he is supposed to be sending AN ENTIRE NEW SET TO REPLACE THIS SINGLE PROBLEM. He just wants the unused set back.
That is service
