On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, PHILIPPE TUSLER wrote:
> If the rings are leaking, what are the consequences of putting off the
> rebild?
Not much, except for the pollution.
Do the cylinders necessarily need to be bored out? If there is
> just 'normal' wear for a 130,000 mile engine, with no scoring, can new
> rings be put in without boring and going over-size? *Sigh*
You must check and see how worn the cylinders are. Chances are, at 130K,
they are pretty worn and putting new rings in without a rebore would be
false economy.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
|