Paul,
It's not unusual to find the rings either broken of just completelty stuck
in the ring land, doing abousoltely nothing for you. I'd gusss the later or
a combination of both since it's been sitting so long. If opened 4 or 5
engines in the last year and with the exception of one that was recently
rebuilt with new positons, NONE of the pistons were usable because the ring
lands were too wide. I hate to be break the news to you, but I doubt
seriously you'll get away with just rings. It's probably a waste of tme any
money to try it and you'll likely end up with just a disassembled engine.
Leave it alone until you can come up with a better solution. At least you
can drive it now.
Gerard
At 5:11 PM -0700 4/13/02, Paul Archibald wrote:
>I've been putting this off, as I had a feeling I knew from
>day one what was teh problem when I bought the l'il red
>beastie......
>
>Today, after delaying long enough by working on the ducati,
>installing a radio in Elgie, cleaning up the garage,
>epoxying together a broken laptop body for my
>friend...etc...I finally pulled out the comp testor and
>pulled the plugs.
>
>the good thing is apparently I really do have teh fuel spot
>on thanks to the help from Gerard and Cap'n Bob! They are
>all nice beige coloured! ;-)
>
>now for the bad news....
>
>cyl. #1 90 #
>cyl. #2 89 #
>cyl. #3 130 #
>cyl. #4 195 # ??????????????????
>guessing bad rings in #1 and #2, but #4 blows me away...
>
>after adding some m m oil
>
>cyl. #1 135 #
>cyl. #2 105 #
>cyl. #3 150 #
>cyl. #4 210 # ??????????????????
>guessed right on the rings, but apparently valves as
>well...
>#4 still a mistery!!!!!!
>
>so..................um....er....looks like I gots some
>problems!
>
>I know y'all will cringe at this, but wondering about
>trying to just do a paupers re-build and just do the rings!
>;-0
>......and a quickie home valve lap job.....
>
>I HATE not having any $$$ but being still unemployed thanks
>to our wonderfull silly-con valley economy, I'm having to
>cut some corners...any suggestions? I know this was the
>usual before the eighties/nineties when cash is
>low...nowadays people just either toss it out or
>immediately do a complete nut-n-bolt re-build of the whole
>car when it blows a head gasket, so....waddyathink??
>
>Paul ;-(down to only four vehicles and none are working
>right...maybe because three are british and one is
>italian?) ;-)
>........maybe I need to just ride the lame duc as it at
>least sorta runs...just doesn't stop too good....or
>turn...or...
>
>
>'63 midget (One sick puppy!)...
>'66 Land-Rover 88" Pick-up "Elgie" pissing out rad fluid
>from replacement heater!
>'95 Land Rover Disco "The Light Brigade" blown
>radiator and too modified for daily transportation..
>'92 Ducati 750ss RBBRDUC (lame-duc for now...)
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