Art,
I'm curious -- have you done it yourself? Now that I've BTDT I would guess
that I could start the job on Friday night and plan to have the car running by
late Sunday. That's with all of the parts and tools ready, and in place, when I
start. Otherwise you need to add on the time that it takes to chase down a
cylinder hone, a ridge reamer, a ring expander, a good torque wrench that you
can read while on you back underneath the car, etc., etc. But, you're right ...
"it won't take an hour."
Art Pfenninger wrote:
> If all you are doing are replacing the same size rings then I would say
> it's about a 4, maybe even a 3. The tough part (time consuming) is getting
> the pan off. The head will also need to come off but at least you can get
> at the bolts easily. It won't take a day to do, but then again it won't
> take an hour.
> ...Art
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Rick Roberts wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any experience on doing a ring job?
> > How is it on a scale of 1-10 for the do-it-yourselfer novice+ mechanic?
> > (realizing there are 1000000 other questions that could fit in here)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> >
> >
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