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Topic: Ring gap spacing?
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stang106
Gearhead Posts: 780
From: God's Country!... Port Alberni B.C. Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-26-2002 02:55 PM
   
Can someone please outline where they place the five ring gaps, from top to bottom, as related to a clock face? My rebuild book is vague here.
Thanks,
Dave
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69 Sportsroof
Gearhead Posts: 1863
From: Valley, Alabama, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 04-26-2002 04:21 PM
I put mine at 2, 6 and 10 o'clock, or 120 degrees on the circle. Make sure your oil ring ends but up to each other and not overlap.
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V8 Thumper
Gearhead Posts: 4376
From: Arizona
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 04-26-2002 04:27 PM
The oil 'expander' ring I put at either 3 or 9, with the rails at a 90* split opposite of the expander gap. Example: Expander at 9, top oil rail ring at 1:30, bottom at 4:30. Bottom compression ring at 10:30, top compression ring at 1:30. What you don't want under any circumstances is either a 12 or 6, those are thrust faces. That's from my hillbilly motorhead up-bringing, anyone else? 
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kid vishus
Gearhead Posts: 6060
From: middle of NC
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 04-26-2002 05:47 PM
I just start them off not in line with each other, in no particular place. I always figured that as the motor ran, the rings move around in the lands anyways, and it always sems like they end up lined up no matter where you put them to start with. Ok, so I'm not very scientific about things.
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