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Hi everyone,

I have been rebuilding a P200 motor that was suffering from low compression. Upon pulling the head, I was greeted with a highly scored surface, which was likely the culprit. In favour of time, I decided to purchase a new barrel and piston and keep the old one for re-boring in the future.

The barrel arrived today, the ports weren't perfect but that didn't matter as I had planned to alter the timings a touch with my dremel to better match the Simonini expansion chamber anyhow.

My issue comes in that the small dowel on the bottom of the cylinder that locates the cylinder relative to the casings is missing. Can I run the cylinder without this dowel? If not, where can I buy a suitable dowel?

Thanks.
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Yes you can run the cylinder without the dowel. The 4 studs will position the cylinder accordingly.
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Dowel, what dowel are you talking about? I have never seen one on my 150 motor or my 200, just the 4 cylinder studs.
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SaFiS wrote:
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Neither of mine have that dowel. I cut my own shims by hand and have never seen those. I have seen that hole and wondered what it was for.
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It's normally there and clocks the cylinder to the crankcase more precisely than the studs and their clearanced holes thru the cylinder.
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It's normally there and clocks the cylinder to the crankcase more precisely than the studs and their clearanced holes thru the cylinder.
Now I have to find a dowel to put in next time I pull my top end.

Anyone know where to find one, on Scootermercato website?
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It's normally there and clocks the cylinder to the crankcase more precisely than the studs and their clearanced holes thru the cylinder.
I figured this was the case; could the malalignment cause any issues (such as the exhaust port being shorted by the transfers in the piston), or reduce performance (perhaps by blinding the boost port)?
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When i set up my Pinasco 225 a few years ago now, I used the screw off end of a spark plug which fits well and seems to have worked fine.

Ive wondered if not installing this is the thing that brings on the weak Pinasco piston problem thats been discussed.
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When i set up my Pinasco 225 a few years ago now, I used the screw off end of a spark plug which fits well and seems to have worked fine.

Ive wondered if not installing this is the thing that brings on the weak Pinasco piston problem thats been discussed.
Good idea, I'll use one off of a new plug that I'll be buying tomorrow.

I think that especially with an aftermarket exhaust which forces the cylinder anti-clockwise, it is very possible that this could contribute to the piston shattering, as the boost port area which is normally at around 1-2 o'clock would find its way closer to 12.

This would allow the skirt of the piston more freedom to migrate into the boost port area, which means that the piston would then have to encounter a sharp cylinder wall before being 'knocked' back into the bore.

Quite possibly leading to metal fatigue over a long period of time.
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That sounds like a lot of rotation. If, for the sake of argument, say the stud hole has a half mm of clearance.
Then that would mean that without the dowel pin, it could be forced to rotate 1/4 mm off of nominal which doesn't seem like it would be enough to do all that. Do the math on the stud pattern diameter's circumference and I suppose you could figure out the degrees...

Any large industrial fastener shop should have metric dowel pins or try McMaster-Carr online or just Google. The dowel is hardened steel and much better for this than the hollow aluminum spark plugs end I'm afraid.
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Its not needed on that barrel. It is used on high end multi port barrels to make sure the ring gap does not align with a port.
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