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Re: tech Q, piston rings

To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>, "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: tech Q, piston rings
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:28:18 -0500
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From "Charles Christ" <cfchrist at earthlink.net>
Date:  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:15:37 -0500

>#1 ask chuck to borrow his ring end gap filing tool!  it's nifty and does a
>super job of squarely filing ring end gaps with a diamond dust wheel in a
>ring holding fixture.

Figures there's a tool for this! ;)


>#2 check end gap by putting ring squarely into bore by inserting ring into
>bore then use new piston to push ring square in bore.  then feeler gauge end
>gap.  (most production rings are near spot on, but ya never know and never
>just assume they are! chances are you will not need to borrow the tool!)

That's the plan. (and using the piston upside-down from the top, too.) I just 
wanted to find out what to do if something wasn't spot on. Thanks!

-=Chris

Chris King   - cbking@alum.rpi.edu
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kvcbk/

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