{"id":228,"date":"2014-07-03T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/?p=228"},"modified":"2014-07-05T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:30:03","slug":"piston-and-cylinder-damage-and-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/piston-and-cylinder-damage-and-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Piston and cylinder damage and repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conrod has bent and is no longer flush on the bearing. This caused the conrod to collide with the crankcase wall.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/PTIMPMHZtG8<\/p>\n<p>The damage has been repaired on the crankcase with fine glass paper and then polished.<\/p>\n<p>This is the damaged on the cylinder caused by the heat from the exhaust. Also the piston where scoring has started to take place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3133-e1401820731928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-159\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3133-e1401820731928-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3133\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3133-e1401820731928-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3133-e1401820731928-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3131-e1401819934646.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3131-e1401819934646-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3131\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3131-e1401819934646-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3131-e1401819934646-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New piston ordered with conrod complete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-230 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3240-e1404422309182-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3240\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3240-e1404422309182-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3240-e1404422309182-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cylinder will be sent away to have the nikasil lining repaired and re-honed to the spec of the piston. The manufacturer states 0.07mm clearance.<\/p>\n<p>The conrod will be replaced and balanced, pictures to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Conrod replaced and crank balanced.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_32481.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-236\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_32481-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3248[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_32481-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_32481-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conrod has bent and is no longer flush on the bearing. This caused the conrod to collide with the crankcase wall. http:\/\/youtu.be\/PTIMPMHZtG8 The damage has been repaired on the crankcase with fine glass paper and then polished. This is the damaged on the cylinder caused by the heat from the exhaust. Also the piston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paragliding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewburton.co.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}