To re-ring or not to re-ring?

Mills

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Ok, the ol’ war horse – ’99 SX 600 triple – now has 7,800+ hard ridden miles on it.

I am currently changing out the track and swapping the SX radius / tie rods for Viper rods to take advantage of the Viper long travel shocks that were stuffed in last year.

Since I have it that far apart already I was thinking I would re-ring it also. The compression is 115/118/118 (PTO / mid / mag). I did the head gasket mod with a new custom thickness Cometic gasket, airbox mod and silencer mod. Should this sled be re-ringed or will I not get much bang for the buck out of it? It still runs good except for a puzzling stumble now and again at steady state idle. It back fired really hard twice so I am wondering if I might have bent the crank which is causing the idle issue. It doesn’t vibrate or shake at mid to high rpm so the stumble is somewhat of a mystery to me.

Mills
 
If it aint broke dont fix it. I would just ride it until it starts to give you some grief.
 
Sled Dog said:
If it aint broke dont fix it. I would just ride it until it starts to give you some grief.


I agree, I don't know the difference between the 700 and 600, but I have a buddy that drove a 700 like his throttle was a light switch for over 12000 miles and thing still runs like a top.
 
rings and pistons or you might end up breaking a skirt and then you will have problems
 


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