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Old 09-29-2006 | 09:33 PM
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dartmouth01
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Default Nemesis piston tightness?

Hi guys,

I just took apart my Nemesis motor to inspect it and to clean things up and seal things up with some gasket maker. What I found was that the piston can go through the sleeve almost till an 1/8 of an inch of the piston is sticking out the top (took the piston and sleeve out to check). Does this mean the piston/sleeve are at the end of their life, or is this normal? The pull start is still plenty hard to pull when the motor is cold, and the motor will ran pretty consistently through a few tanks without dying right before I pulled the engine apart, and temps were around 230-250.

Thanks!

Al