Should I re-ring my motor now or wait?

Yama49601

Yama49601

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I just wanted some opinions about this. I'm trying to decide whether or not to put new rings in my motor now, or wait until the season's over. The motor has a little over 6000 miles on it. As far as I know it's never been done. My compression is 130, 128 and 127, that's with the center layer of my head gasket removed. This compression gauge showed 90 or 95 on my friends motor when he decided to get new rings for his and it still ran ok, so I don't think it has a tendency to read real high or anything? I wish I had a leakdown tester but I don't. Anyway, I was just thinking about doing it as preventive maintenance. What would you do? I keep reading that you really should do it every 3000 miles if you want to keep the motor fresh and prevent piston wear etc. So should I do it now or just wait? :2strokes:
 

If it was mine with 6,000 miles and being we have no snow right now i
would do it yes.. definitely, OEM parts..
 
Hey thanks. I never thought to look for blow by
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but I'm gonna check it. And it's definitely gonna be OEM parts daman, I wouldn't give anyone else a red cent for parts for this thing. Well not internal engine parts anyway.
 
Yama49601 said:
Hey thanks. I never thought to look for blow by
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but I'm gonna check it. And it's definitely gonna be OEM parts daman, I wouldn't give anyone else a red cent for parts for this thing. Well not internal engine parts anyway.
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Too early!

I looked at my pistions and rings through the pipe at 6000 miles on my viper and they looked prefect. My compression was a bit higher then yours. I have 7500 miles now and don't plan to do pistion or rings until 15000 miles :-). I think everyone is crazy doing rings every 3k miles. Use good gas and sythetic oil and it will last almost forever. My 2 cents. When I do it, I will tear it right down to crank and check the run out.

Steve
 
Viper-Rules! said:
I looked at my pistions and rings through the pipe at 6000 miles on my viper and they looked prefect. My compression was a bit higher then yours. I have 7500 miles now and don't plan to do pistion or rings until 15000 miles :-). I think everyone is crazy doing rings every 3k miles. Use good gas and sythetic oil and it will last almost forever. My 2 cents. When I do it, I will tear it right down to crank and check the run out.

Steve
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Steve try a search on rings and see what members have posted on the
subject, lots of good info, it's not as crazy as you might think. ;)
 
Well part of the reason I would like to change them is because up until 4500 (or so) miles it had Yamalube ran in it :rofl:
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The rings are on the way. They have circlips in stock, but I don't know if I'm gonna buy them or not because I really didn't plan on even taking the pistons off of the rods.
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I checked the pistons out by taking the exhaust off and looking in there. There is absolutely zero blowby below the rings. The pistons look brand new.
 
I always re-ring my Banshee half-way through the race season. Couldn't afford a melt down due to something as simple as a set of rings. But I always used Redline Oil. Mixed it at 60-1 and ran it as lean as possible with no problems. Every winter I would take the motor down to the crank and replace bearings and seals. Pistons always looked like the day they were put in.
 
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