Re: tight piston rings

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Subject: Re: tight piston rings
From: ethan schartman <eschartman@domain.elided>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:14:46 -0700 (PDT)
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> From: "Paul Irvine" <pi@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: tight piston rings
> 
> You didn't mention it but I'm assuming you checked
> your ring gaps before you
> put them on the pistons and installed them - right?

the ring gap is .016" and .016" for 1st and 2nd
compression rings (spec .012-.018"). from some other
digesti it sounds normal for new rings. it just
surprised me at first that they'd be so tight...

-ethan schartman
'87 milano gold
princeton, NJ
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