I hate to be picky, but the term is land, not lan. Ring Lands are the parallel surfaces between which the ring resides.
Peace, Ben -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Neely Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:41 PM To: [email protected]; squirrelmanxx einstandig Subject: [alfa] Piston Rings, was Re: Total Seal will assemble a set of rings to your specification. Other manufacturers may also. You have to specify the bore and the size of each of the three (I assume) ring lans. Measure carefully and several times. Total Seal should be able to tell you how much side gap is required for each of the rings. That is, the ring lan will be slightly wider than the ring by a few thousands of an inch. Total Seal builds the top ring in two pieces. The gaps in the two pieces are offset, so the top ring "Totally Seals" the combustion chamber. The second ring is a normal ring. And the third or oil control ring is the three part design preferred by most on the people on this list. Not sure how to contact Total Seal, but Google them. They may show their distributors. I got my last set of Total Seal rings from Paul Spruell www.paulspruell.com. Paul's daughter in law ( I believe) runs the parts counter. Her name is Michelle. Ciao, Russ Neely --- On Thu, 7/22/10, squirrelmanxx einstandig <[email protected]> wrote: From: squirrelmanxx einstandig <[email protected]> Subject: To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 4:58 PM GREETINGS, a tutti. I've finally gotten busy putting my '64 Spider back on the road after 20 + years !! I turned the motor over by hand and added a bit of olio to cylinders every year it was in storage............................except for two years in a row. Now i have piston rings stuck to the liners. After a thorough soak and some heating, i plan to use a hydraulic press to free the pistons and anticipate a surface hone and new rings. However, i have the 9.7 piston setup installed,, and i can't seem to find new ring sets for that. Any suggestions ???????? [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of IMG_0843 jpg.JPG] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of IMG_0624.JPG] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of IMG_0847.JPG] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
