Help identify Piston

skodaelise · Post by **skodaelise** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:50 pm

Hi hello new to the forum,, Bought a early 3500 (rope rear crank seal)with a misfire? on strip down found it has had some serious work done..only problem the misfire turned out to be a piston failure,rest of the engine looks a1,looking for a piston,but so far the avenues ive tried cant make anything of the numbers provided,,,on the crown,,,id6 t16 +040..underneath,,18069a g1 ae...413p...has very small dish with 2 valve cutouts,

unstable load · Post by **unstable load** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:53 am

This thread is worthless without pictures... lol..

CastleMGBV8 · Post by **CastleMGBV8** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:13 am

Certainly not standard at +40 with cutouts and indicate an engine that may have had some serious work done, what are the heads like? pictures would be helpful, a small dish may be 9.75 / 1 compression depending on where the pistons are at top dead centre.

You may have to source from the US D & D fabrications are Buick 215/ early rover engine specialists, heres a link to there piston range.

http://www.aluminumv8.com/catalogpages/ ... onents.htm

Kevin.

sidecar · Post by **sidecar** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:49 pm

Of course it is possible to cut 'eye brows' into a standard piston, I had to do this recently, I used the 'spin a valve with teeth' method which worked very well!