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Old 05-16-2013, 12:33 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by t vago View Post
[/LIST]Have you ever tried to pull on a piston to create vacuum? It's pretty frickin' hard to do.
Yes, every time I have to change bearings in an engine and the valves are closed for that piston. It's a large volume you're pulling on, takes patience sometimes to bring the piston down to mate it back up to the crank after you change the whole bottom end.

...aaaaand that's why I don't like Triton V8's.

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