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Pistons and rings

From 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue “Back up” — documented by Sixlitre.

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1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - That's as clean as these pitons are getting. Cleaned the carbon out of the lands with a busted piston ring and everything got washed down w… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Eight pistons done in less than an hour. I'd forgotten how much I hated cleaning pistons. Higher than a kite on those fumes, so I cut the g… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Talk about happy campers. The gaps on the new rings prove this bore is well within factory specs ! 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Not one of the old rings were busted, but some weren't staggered properly. Mahle is a name I know and respect for piston rings, and at 24 b… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Couldn't find my whipped, 25 year old band type piston ring compresser anywhere. Canadian Tire will loan this tool kit free to anyone willi… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - What a treat this is going to be compared to my old, whipped, missing compresser! Just can't justify buying another one this late in life,… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Cleaned piston ready for new rings, in box to right. Mahle instructions further right and the ever present factory service manual on the le… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - New rod bearings to be installed and seven more to go. Grease bearings, submerge pistons upside down in oil and ready to install. 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Eight pistons in, 16 con rod nuts torqued to factory 45 ft/lbs and cam bearings lubed with assembly grease. 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - Comp Cams lube all over the lobes of the new RV cam. A long water pump bolt inserted into the cam to use as a handle. You have to steal the… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - S.A. Double roller timing chain set installed over top the MP tensioner, which goes on EVERY smallblock I build. The Canadian stealership b… 1983 Chrysler Fifth Avenue - I cleaned each lifter bore thoroughly and then lubed them up with assembly grease.