Subject: Re: RE installing rings problems
Author: Pete
Date: Aug 6, 2002, 7:09 PM
Post ID: 1710750291
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In a message dated 08/06/2002 3:03:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
cook-@virgin.net writes:
| something may be worth trying is to clean out the ring groove in the old piston before fitting the new rings. there is a special tool for the job, but many ppl use a section of broken ring. you probably have that :-) |
Havent done it myself yet but I rememeber reading that the ring gap should be
staggered around the piston, in other words the ring gaps shoudl not all be
at the same point.
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 08/06/2002 3:03:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, cook-@virgin.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">something may be worth trying is to clean out the ring groove in the old
<BR>piston before fitting the new rings.
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<BR>there is a special tool for the job, but many ppl use a section of broken
<BR>ring. you probably have that :-)
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<BR>Havent done it myself yet but I rememeber reading that the ring gap should be staggered around the piston, in other words the ring gaps shoudl not all be at the same point. </FONT>
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