Thread: Ring wear
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff in Pa View Post
Let's see, standard bore is 3.375 so .010 over would be 3.385

The circumference of the +.010 bore is 10.634 and the standard bore is 10.603, a difference of .031

I would say somebody was completely clueless on proper gapping techinques and just plain screwed up.

Did you use the piston upside down to make sure the rings were square in the bore?
I used my calipers to push them down evenly all the way around same concept. It was also tripping me up that they were so much different.
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