Re: buying used pistons
 

You are asking us if you should rip off someone else? :S

Re: buying used pistons
 

put them on ebay and let people bid. just say unknown condition as is.
that's kind of accurate since you don't know if they will work or not

Re: buying used pistons
 

I hate fucks with the ebay mentality that do that ----, 'I learned these parts are junk but if I say unknown as is condition my morality will let me knowingly rip someone off'

Re: buying used pistons
 

Look man, there are two people in this thread that have vouched for used pistons with scars working fine on boosted engines. He doesn't know if they would work or not, which is OBVIOUSLY why he made this thread, therefore the condition of them is UNKNOWN. Let the buyer take the chance and save some money on a build if it works.

I do agree with you on some level though. If you blow oil out of a turbo and put it on ebay without any description and say AS IS for 100 bucks you're really dicking someone over.

Re: buying used pistons
 

It has binding pins. That is not scarring to the skirts which "I would run if the ring lands aren't slopped out and the pistons were free."

Ask PhilStubbs how his used pistons with binding pins is working out for him right now.

Re: buying used pistons
 

ohh, so if the pins don't easily install, then the pistons wont articulate freely about the axis? I get it now. :1

Re: buying used pistons
 

Where it binds, it wears. The aluminum galls and smears around, the wrist pin knocks, the whole area gets hot and siezes and fails just like the rod bearing area.

Re: buying used pistons
 

even getting mixed feedback enough to make someone unknowing/inexperienced to shy away but only list as simply 'unknown condition' without sharing the mixed feedback irritates me. But you're probably right my bitterness comes from 'unknown condition' arriving in obviously defiled state. I got a set of free rods off the last fucker that did that though.

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and $25 wasn't it?

Re: buying used pistons
 

ok so the place where the pins slide in had some burrs, thats why they were not floating

some 1500 grit fixed it

8) hmt fo life