Remember: the problem may not reside in the piston itself, but rather with your anxiety over how the piston will perform.
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Sounds about right……
Sometimes, piston rings are indicated.
See now how all things are connected and depend upon each other. Upset one and another will diminish. The piston depends on the rod and the rod the crank and they all spin wildly when you add a blower.
Performance anxiety is a common problem – for instance, just see the previous Leif Garrett post. It’s widely rumoured that during filming, Leif’s little piston frequently wouldn’t, uh, crank. No matter how hard the blower worked.
No wife, no horse, and no moustache.
If improperly lubricated the entire process may fail.
Pistons lasting over 4 hours, though rare, require mechanic assistance.
It is a cold, grey December day as Chris and I coast along, past the grey brick buildings, with their broken glass and piles of grey snow in front of them. Everything is grey. Grey, grey, grey.
I think of the pistons, and I think of my anxiety over how they will perform. Pistons are grey, too.
And then I remember the scent of the pine needles from yesterday’s ride and, for a moment, both the pistons and my anxiety over their performance cease to exist.
I’ve been reading your blog for a couple of weeks, and every other blog I go to read, I now find I have this, this lens on. I read what they post and my head processes everything through this yellow, soggy, viscous sarcasm…I can’t tell if anyone else is serious or not.
You’ve ruined me.
And they say we neocons are so black and white…
How big are these pistons?
That reminds me of a funny story my grandad used to tell, the lying bastard. Fortunately, my subconcious has blocked it out, so you needn’t suffer through it. But there ARE the nightmares still, man – I mean it was seared, just SEARED into my nascent personality…
Spambuster: happened
As if.
And the yang of piston would be…?
We’re just glad to see you back in your stride, Jeff. These past couple of weeks have been super-duper and it’s much better than reading you sulking about those mega blogs’ lawyers ramming their pistons into one another.
For instance, you should patent the term blogiday and make February 13th National Kryptonite to Willis But Don’t Link the Dipshit Day.
… or something similarly catchy.
Spam word “able.” You’re damn right!
Forget pistons. I’m not in the mood to worry about tappet noise.
I have a headache and my rings are too tight.
secret word: month
What is the sound of one piston performing?
Carin, they say it’s not the size of the piston, it’s the horsepower behind it. On the other hand, if you have a Pontiac 389/350 from a ‘65 Goat and a 20” piston with a head diameter of 5 and 3/4, well, you see where I’m going with this….
Craig, Craig, Craig … I know they say that size doesn’t matter. But, I’m sorry. “They” are lying. Obviously we’ve all seen enough gay porn to know that, right?
It’s not the size of the pistons or the size of the cylinders, it’s the compression ratio that really matters.
Some folks don’t have pistons – they use a rotary instead.
Hummmmm……
That’s my point, Carin. “They” say it’s not the size of the ship, it’s the motion of the ocean, but if ya got the motion of the ocean and a battle cruiser, well boy howdy.
I guess Jeff will be
Atrios’s Wankel of the Day
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~ crickets ~
Well, living as I do in the greater L.A. area, I’m more worried about the way the Lakers have been performing as of late.
That didn’t come out right, did it? Not meaning to imply anything about little old me. Just a theory.
Keyword, “quite”
And they say we neocons are so black and white…
Like pistons, neocons are grey.
Om.
I’ll change my own damn oil, thank you very much.
McGehee, you capitalist pig. What about all the downtrodden workers in the oil-change industry you’re putting out of work? Huh?
Bumperstickerist,
Does the rotary motion of the Wankel make it superior to reciprocating motion? (Like Seinfeld’s “Clockwise swirl” joke)
All this talk about pistons, and nothing about the cylinders they must work in. Pistons and cylinders must be properly matched or else no compression will occur. And without proper compression, there’s no ignition.
Craig, they can damn well get jobs in the White House press corps.
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