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Offline Bigtim

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Knurling
« on: March 25, 2009, 03:07:25 AM »
On a gasket thread the subject of knurling the cases came up.  any thoughts, or horror stories?  Does it become nessicary after boosting compression? :|
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Offline KXcam22

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Re: Knurling
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2009, 01:01:37 PM »
I have never heard of doing that to a gasket surface.  Knurling would be terrible. Gaskets rely on large pefectly flat surfaces to seal, hence why lapping helps such a great deal. Knurling would destroy that. Cam.
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Re: Knurling
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2009, 01:29:51 PM »
Ive had pistons Knurled to bring them back to spec with good results in applications pistons wernt available at the time for...
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Offline BDI

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Re: Knurling
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2009, 03:41:15 PM »
Do not damage the gasket surface.
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