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    Posted: March-10-2004 at 12:18am
Anyone know what causes damage to a piston/cylinder that looks like this:

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These are pictures of #1. #5 looks almost as bad and it seems to get gradually better towards the rear of the engine. This is a PCM 351 out of a '79 SN. The engine has 1100 indicated hours, but I've only owned it since last August so I am unsure of all the history.

I'm amazed at how good the boat ran last season for how bad the cylinders look.
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Look's like you engine got hot for some period of time, and your oil rings collapsed. Note the varnish above both sets of comprssion rings. The grooves on your pistons and cylinder block are from the piston canting, or tilting sideways in the bore. Usually on a auto motor the rear cylinders will be progressivaly worse, but on a marine motor, when they get hot, they get real hot! Check your main bearings, and your wrist pins, and bushings.
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awhite70 - The reason your cylinder walls look like that is probably because the rings are so worn, that the piston itself is actually starting to ride against the cylinder wall. take a compression ring off the worst cylinder piston, place the ring down into that cylinder bore squared evenly with the deck, and measure the ring gap with a feeler gauge set - post this measurement...
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I'l measure the ring gap and post it eventually.

I haven't gotten to the main bearings yet, but the rod bearings looked really good. I don't expect the mains to be much different. The engine has always had good oil pressure.

Last season aside from a tick the engine ran great, good power and didn't use oil. Now that I think about it the boat had a new raw water pump when I bought it. I wonder if the old one went bad and the engine overheated?
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Do you not have a temp gauge in the boat that you could monitor as your boating? If not then once the repairs are made would you attempt to install one? I agree that your oil got too hot which is proven by the varnish on the pistons.Oil pump bad? How about the Oil Pressure during ops? Was it normal or do you not have one of those either? I don't know much about earlier SN's.
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could have been a big dust storm on the lake or someone munched an impeller and kept on going. not you , but a PO. look for chunks-o-rubber in the heads.

i think you should have chrome upper ring and oil control RING to handle a motor that is run without an air filter. IMHO. are those ductile/moly rings in the photo?

this is an interesting aspect of breakin' one in.moto man
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Oil Pressure was always good, and the temp gage never went over 160. The boat was never overheated or run low on oil since I've had it, but I don't know the history before last August.
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