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Old 11-26-2023, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Stan Weiss View Post
Yes the pistons were designed with a wrist pin offset and placed in the direction they were to quite the engine on cold start up. In the cases I have seen reversing the pistons at build time did no damage it just made the engine a little noisier. Remember almost all after market piston have no offset.

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Originally Posted by PAUL K View Post
Agree .... Only issues might be some noise and premature wear. What may cause an issue is if the rods were installed backwards along with the pistons. But if there is adequate rod side clearance that wouldn't matter either.
From Page #11 back in August (Quote)

Suppose it wouldn’t hurt to go in there with some feeler gauges and check the side clearance? Looking at the pics more, there are definitely some rods that are correct and some that are not..

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