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Ya know,....... only a certain type of person would read your thread and not enjoy what you are sharing here....

When I rebuilt my engine many years ago, I fitted new pistons and they came with bent wire circlips for the wristpins... I didn't think anything of it at the time and installed them. A hundred miles later I am crusing along and I get a pop, and puff of smoke out of one exhaust pipe, I shut the engine down, pulled the clutch and coasted to a stop. One of those shitty wire circlips popped out and scored my cylinder wall. I had to rebuild again from the barrels up. This time I used proper circlips cut out of flat steel. At the time when I first built the engine, I didn't know enough and used a single crappy substandard part and it cost me time and money to tear everything apart and rebuild it again... lesson learned... (I know I still have those wire circlips in a bag in my parts bin with the one of those circlips with a flattened side on it... Its a reminder to me every time I see them)

Your project looks amazing. Please post more as you progress... Thanks

<blockquote data-quote="o0norton0o" data-source="post: 289743" data-attributes="member: 7701">Ya know,....... only a certain type of person would read your thread and not enjoy what you are sharing here.... When I rebuilt my engine many years ago, I fitted new pistons and they came with bent wire circlips for the wristpins... I didn&#039;t think anything of it at the time and installed them.&nbsp; A hundred miles later I am crusing along and I get a pop, and puff of smoke out of one exhaust pipe,&nbsp; I shut the engine down, pulled the clutch and coasted to a stop. One of those shitty wire circlips popped out and scored my cylinder wall. I had to rebuild again from the barrels up. This time I used proper circlips cut out of flat steel.&nbsp; At the time when I first built the engine, I didn&#039;t know enough and used a single crappy substandard part and it cost me time and money to tear everything apart and rebuild it again... lesson learned...&nbsp; (I know I still have those wire circlips in a bag in my parts bin with the one of those circlips with a flattened side on it... Its a reminder to me every time I see them) Your project looks amazing. Please post more as you progress...&nbsp; Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="o0norton0o, post: 289743, member: 7701"] Ya know,....... only a certain type of person would read your thread and not enjoy what you are sharing here.... When I rebuilt my engine many years ago, I fitted new pistons and they came with bent wire circlips for the wristpins... I didn't think anything of it at the time and installed them. A hundred miles later I am crusing along and I get a pop, and puff of smoke out of one exhaust pipe, I shut the engine down, pulled the clutch and coasted to a stop. One of those shitty wire circlips popped out and scored my cylinder wall. I had to rebuild again from the barrels up. This time I used proper circlips cut out of flat steel. At the time when I first built the engine, I didn't know enough and used a single crappy substandard part and it cost me time and money to tear everything apart and rebuild it again... lesson learned... (I know I still have those wire circlips in a bag in my parts bin with the one of those circlips with a flattened side on it... Its a reminder to me every time I see them) Your project looks amazing. Please post more as you progress... Thanks [/QUOTE]

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