Filing Rings

[blackbetty]

For instance, that muffin eating English guy who had to rebuild his engine like 3 times before he got it right. With the parts scattered all over his gravel driveway, I expected it would take at least 5 tries, lol.

A little dirt helps w break in right?

 

[5twins]

You should buddy up with that guy out on the Res. You guys could start a cam chain shortening business, lol.

 

[FB71]

just to be clear, folks; I never said the ends of the ring touch - but the gap does close - that's why it's important for the ends to be square, so they DON'T touch

The goal is for the ends of the ring to be a close to one another without touching, when the engine is at maximum operating temp

The initial gap accounts for thermal expansion of all related components