Originally Posted by
DCL_dave
Sounds like a good plan if the steel on the piston stub is workable/ can be peened over again. Sometimes the steel used in some gem pistons is extremely hard and difficult to drill/machine (possibly case hardened?) if memory serves, that is usually the machine fit piston types though.
Yes they are very, very hard.
Baz
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