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Old 07-24-2006 | 12:20 PM
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Default RE: How to replace an engine ring?

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Get some 220 emery paper, use it on your finger like this. Use a twisting
motion, and the in-and-out motion at the same time, and try to achieve
the "cross hatch" pattern like in the picture I posted. Use the paper dry.
Use two or three small pieces as necessary.

It will only take a minute to get the desired results. Don't worry, it would
take about a half hour of work to remove .001 of an inch. The cylinder
wall is tough as nails....it has to be to have a cast iron ring rubbing up and down
on it twelve thousand times a minute.

Coat the cylinder wall, and the piston/ring with a thin coat of oil when you
put it back together, any oil will do. It will work out just fine.

FBD.
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