Originally Posted By J5440
I'm using modeling clay, ok...play dough, on top of the piston. I guess I'm not sure why that method can't be used to check PV clearance and the wipe pattern at the same time since it's exactly the set up that will be there when the engine is running.


You never said how you planned to check your P/V clearance, if you had I'd have only 1 post in this thread.

You just talked about the Hughes tool and how it would tell you what the P/V clearance was, which it would not.

running up my post count some more .