Re: New Piston Rings <9509061732.AA04877@tin>

[William Hartwell Woodruff <woodruff@engin.umich.edu>]

++> I've checked the bores on my Spit, and there are slight ridges at the top
++> of the piston travel. When I put new rings on my bad piston, are they doomed
++> to break?

        Yep.  They will break.  There is a common tool called a ridge reamer
which will clean the bores up.  You can get one at your local auto parts store.

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William Woodruff        woodruff@caen.engin.umich.edu
Ann Arbor MI