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I think it's so they don't end up in the wrong place....the cylinder intake and exhaust ports ...and get snapped off.DGA wrote: No, a 2 stroke's rings are pinned so they get installed in the right place, how else would you get the gaps exactly in the right place?...
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I set my rings as called for by the instructions. One more thing to take pics of while I install my Wiseco 10.25/1's.
Will be interesting to see how far they have moved in the last year and a half.
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321,000 miles on KZ's that I can remember. Not going to see any more.
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650ed wrote: I can't say if it's true or false, but here's an interesting article. Ed
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Interesting article, but I don't see how a ring can produce a "tangential load" when it exerts force against the cylinder wall. Doen's he mean "radial load"? If the ring is pressing against the wall, the force vector is radial relative to the piston axis.
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For a less than 1 minute task, setting the ring gaps just seems like good practice, if they rotate then little time wasted, but by staggering the gaps, if the rings are sticky it will minimise pressure loss through the ring gaps...that's the theory anyway. Also those first minutes of running time is critical for break in-which requires a strong radial force on the rings to bed them, gapping the rings evenly will maximise this.
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