ajinvista
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- Nov 17, 2002
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Lavista,
Nebraska
Anybody had more success with one manufacturer or another.
Hastings has been suggested.
Or, should I use Total Seal, or, someone on here just used o/s mits rings.
I need to get a set of new rings to re-ring this fresh build. Car was smoking severly, new seals, twice, turbo rebuilt ( dumb waste of money, only 48k on 14b ) working from the top down to pistons. Pulled pistons and have a ring gap of .050 and .039 for top/2nd rings, just a tad too big I'd say. The guy at the machine shop did all the work(head,bore,ect.) including hanging the pistons on the rods. This was my first complete motor re-assembly by myself and assumed he had gapped the rings too. Nope, lessoned learned.
Anyway, I put a 100 miles on this motor trying to get the smoke problem fixed, no luck, now I know why.
I have .020 mits pistons hanging on Carrillo H-beams, around 15-18 psi, if this makes any difference.
Thanks
A.J.
It still ran pretty good, even with the oil injection.
Hastings has been suggested.
Or, should I use Total Seal, or, someone on here just used o/s mits rings.
I need to get a set of new rings to re-ring this fresh build. Car was smoking severly, new seals, twice, turbo rebuilt ( dumb waste of money, only 48k on 14b ) working from the top down to pistons. Pulled pistons and have a ring gap of .050 and .039 for top/2nd rings, just a tad too big I'd say. The guy at the machine shop did all the work(head,bore,ect.) including hanging the pistons on the rods. This was my first complete motor re-assembly by myself and assumed he had gapped the rings too. Nope, lessoned learned.
Anyway, I put a 100 miles on this motor trying to get the smoke problem fixed, no luck, now I know why.
I have .020 mits pistons hanging on Carrillo H-beams, around 15-18 psi, if this makes any difference.
Thanks
A.J.
It still ran pretty good, even with the oil injection.
