[Kohnke Rebabbitting]

Originally Posted by purdy swoft

you need one thousants clearance per inch of piston diameter, especially with soilid skirt pistons. An engine bored one hundred to one hundred and twenty five thousants would do better with four thousants clearance. As said the back two cylinders do run hotter, especially if the cylinders have been sleeved. Sleeved cylinders can't transfer the heat to the water jacket the same because the sleeve isn't actually part of the original cylinder block. I've had some to argue this and even sink to the childish level of name calling over this matter. Engines that have been sleeved back to standard size will always run hotter .

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