{"id":16172,"date":"2015-06-24T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=16172"},"modified":"2015-07-08T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T00:02:39","slug":"video-mahle-piston-preassembly-measurement-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/video-mahle-piston-preassembly-measurement-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video] Mahle &#8211; Piston Pre-Assembly Measurement Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know Piston pre-assembly is very important when it comes to putting together your engine.\u00a0In this video Trey McFarland from MAHLE Motorsports goes over important preassembly measurements as they pertain to pistons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.Crankshaft counterweight to piston<\/strong> clearance<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Look for a minimum of 40\/1000 clearance<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.Measuring cylinder liner length<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Make sure the widest portion of the piston does not come out of the bottom of the bore.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> To measure liner length run a tape measure through the cylinder\u00a0and measure to the bottom<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.Piston to Sidewall Clearance<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Look for a minimum of 40\/1000 clearance from piston to the rod<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Checking Deck Clearance<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Used for checking compression ratios and gasket thickness.<br \/>\n<strong> \u00a0&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0How to read \u00a0the dial gauge\u00a0when the piston is at top-dead-center (TDE)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJYcNxK4FkA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MAHLE gives us some important tips on clearance measurements for your pistons.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3448,9,3034],"tags":[2970,961,2755,2060,2969,1593],"class_list":["post-16172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-race-101","category-tech-tips","category-videos","tag-video-mahle-piston-preassembly-measurement-tips","tag-drag-race-101","tag-mahle","tag-mahle-motorsports","tag-pistons","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Untitled10.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-4cQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16183,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172\/revisions\/16183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}