On the bolts on the oil pipe going between the block and head, there is
a copper washer. I imagine that there is supposed to be two and not just
one, one on either side of the pipe. Since I spaced out ordering these
and don't really want to wait the extra days, does anyone see any
problems with using fiber washers instead? On my 1st rings, the gap is
.009. Instead of filing them down, I put them on the lathe/mill and took
.010 off of half of each side, with a .003 clearance on the overlapping
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portions, creating a semi-gapless ring. |_ |__
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Hopefully it should do fine, and keep the compression up for longer than
a straight cut ring. If I wouldn't have had .060 pistons, they would
have been overlapping instead of .009 gap, but this is close enough for
me :) If they expand more than .009 at running temps, then they will be
gapless except for the .003 overlap gap.
-- Jim Hall 1966 88" Elephant Chaser http://www.users.qwest.net/~jimfoo "You know, I never really damaged my Rover 'till I started wheeling with Jim." Mitch Stockdale
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