Super crap packing job from JEGS resulted in some pistons banging into each other. Any thoughts on whether these are useable/salvageable? Going into a mild '67 400 street motor.

Appreciate any thoughts you have on whether these have any chance of being used. Thanks

 

Contact Jegs and tell them you want a new set of pistons packaged properly. Of course you can send those ones back as long as they pay shipping. I wouldn't put those in my motor if I had paid for new pistons.

 

Send them back. That one ding on the oil ring groove is terrible. Was each piston in a plastic bag ? If not they might have been a returned set. The box looks like it has been opened before. It looks like it has been bouncing around a warehouse somewhere for quite a long time. What is the date on the label ? I probably see an average of a couple of sets a week so I am pretty familiar in how they look.

I will say that Sealed Power has cheapened their packaging a bit lately. Not as sturdy as it used to be.

 

Like the others say, return them. No way especially the gouge on the oil ring..

 

That’s because most of their stuff has been made in India or Mexico for quite some time. It’s crap.

 

Depends on what you are building. They are probably 100% better than what came in these engines stock. You don't need an $800 set of pistons for a stock or mild build. The Sealed Power pistons will go 200K miles just as easily.

 

I won’t argue that. But their quality and consistency has suffered in recent years. If they’re inspected by a capable builder or machinist fine. But all too often that slips thru the cracks.
Just saying.

 

You paid for pistons that were not damaged. Send them back and make them send what you pay for.

 

Problem solved - they're expressing a new set of pistons and told me to keep the dinged set. More than likely - a set of 16 pistons should produce at least 8 useable ones!

Thanks for the input - very much appreciated.

 

It is good to see a company make it right without a bunch of BS.

 

You can probably file those down and use them in another engine. A friend of mine had the same issue on some cast pistons he got for his 383 street engine. He just filed the ding back to proper clearance, weight matched all the pistons afterwards, and away it went. Boy doesn't pamper his stuff either. It was a Chebby engine, so there's that, but it's still going after 20+ years after removing the ding.

 

Send that back I would no questions

 

When you get your new set and select what you will use, drop me a PM with a price for the eight remaining assemblies, as long as you haven't done anything to them. I would use them in my own engine in a heartbeat. A engine which isn't going to the nationals, after all.

If you guys ever saw pistons welded back together in the pits from pieces fished out of oil pan soup in fuel and Bonneville engines you might not believe it. Not ideal, but a workable repair expedient. A few dings and nicks on a brand new set is not what I want either but if we consider what happened on the old days production line we might not fret small stuff as much.

 

Glad they made it right for you.

 

Browsing Jeg's for this set in question, I noticed some Speed Pro, especially forgings, proudly tout MADE IN USA, but stock type Speed Pro replacements don't seem to clearly specify origin of manufacture.

 

Wait till you get the box to determine where they actually came from.

 

Almost all of the ones I have seen lately are from India. I just got a set for a 289 Ford. Ill take a look in the morning.

 

Good advice, Yoda!