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Burned Piston?

11-25-2008, 03:10 AM

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TWhetten

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Burned Piston?

I am swapping a 12 Valve into my jeep. I got the complete engine from a friend that owns a garage. I only paid $400 for the entire engine minus the vacuum pump and power steering pump. Anyway the engine was taken out because it was knocking, the pump has never been turned up and the engine has 250,000 miles on it. I pulled the heads and the #6 piston is burned and contacting the head. The cylinder walls look good, could I get away with just swapping in a new piston. What could have made that cylinder get hot enough melt the piston.

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