Re: alfa-digest V7 #647

[CaptWSims@domain.elided]

In a message dated 4/17/99 5:59:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<<  am moving near the area and will need spica system servicing and engine 
 servicing (rings). Any experiences?
  >>
Dear ARV28,
Do not have a shop replace the rings alone.  Go for a piston, ring, and liner 
set.  Since the Borgo rings are on the brittle side, many people pull them 
off and install either Deves or Hastings rings.  I used the latter and have 
no detectable blow-by or oil use after 20,000 hard miles.  
To show this is not just a story by suppliers, I bought a Giulietta last 
summer with 100 miles on a rebuilt engine.  The liners were not replaced, 
however, during the overhaul and the blowby is so bad at 800 miles that I am 
pulling the engine out tomorrow to rebuild it the way it should have been 
done.  It is very little more labor and not much more $$ to do it right the 
first time.  
										
			Bill Sims

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