[chevychad]

I was tearing down an engine I bought off craiglist. One of the pistons was pretty stuck. Looks like the engine was sitting in the corner of a garage for 30 years. Anyways I was pounding on the piston with a long stick to get it out and didn't realize the rod was leaning. Where the rod flares out was caught over the edge of the cylinder wall opening.

So what it did was create a dent on the bottom edge of the cylindar wall. Not really on the cylinder wall surface, just the bottom edge was dented down. Hopefully that makes sense if you can invision what I did.

Did I ruin my block, or will a hone make sure the piston rides smooth. The bottom edge never see's compression right?

 

[Mike]

Post a pic.

 

[Tom Mobley]

it'll go away when you bore the block.

 

[twotone64]

Lets just say you were doing a deglazing and re-ring (no boring). You could get away with it by using a die grinder and cleaning it up. Unless you cracked the bock it isnt going to hurt anything.

 

[MikeN]

If you were building a stroker motor, you would probably have to grind that for clearance anyway.

 

[chevychad]

Here are pictures, no Cracks just a gouge

 

[ToyzRMe]

Smooth out the gouge with a die grinder, then bore and hone the block.

It'll be fine. No problem at all.

Like one of the posters wrote.....if you were building a stroker, you'd have to grind around there for rod clearance anyway.

Randy

 

[Busted Knuckles]

Let the shop clean it up for you, they have all the tools, etc. and it won't take them a minute.
Chalk it up to a learning experience and good luck. Not nearly as expensive as having a rod bolt wedge against the crank journal and screw it up as you pound the piston out.

 

[chevychad]

Thanks Guys!!