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1. Ring Job (score: 1): Author: "Rick Roberts" <rrobertsmg@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:26:17 EST; 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, Ri; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00689.html (6,854 bytes)
2. Re: Ring Job (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:01:35 -0800; I've done a complete V8 rebuild. I would say something like this for rings & bottom end on a 4: time commitment = 6 attention to detail = 9 mechanical difficulty = 7 But we may be working from differ; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00694.html (7,901 bytes)
3. Re: Ring Job (score: 1): Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:13:37 -0500 (EST); 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; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00695.html (7,282 bytes)
4. Re: Ring Job (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:16:38 -0500; Are you talking of doing the rings with the engine still in place? BTDT last summer. Not too bad a job but it's a pain to keep the jornals clean when you ream the ridge. While you're at it you shoul; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00700.html (7,502 bytes)
5. Re: Ring Job (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:26:01 -0500; 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 an; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00702.html (8,084 bytes)
6. Re: Ring Job (score: 1): Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>; Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:23:35 -0500 (EST); Yep I've done it at least 5 times over the years, the first time when I was in high school and didn't know that rings came in different sizes. I guess by dumb luck I just went with the standard ones; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00730.html (9,124 bytes)
7. Re: Ring Job (score: 1): Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:12:14 -0600; I've followed this thread with closely, a lot of good stuff in it. Here are some thoughts. I wouldn't expect a first-time mechanic to complete the job in a weekend, unless everything went perfectly (; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00773.html (7,776 bytes)
8. Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: moses@csra.net (Tim Moses); Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:56:42 -0700; I am a first time MGB owner who is attempting to "follow the book" and replace the piston rings in my '79 MGB roadster. I have a simple question, but feel compelled to provide a detailed background.; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00434.html (7,987 bytes)
9. Re: Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: lawref@lawref.com (Ernest E. Gilbert); Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:22:13 -0800; Unlikely that all 'oil rings' would go suddenly and with such a noise. look elsewhere for the reason it won't start before tearing it apart. Rings may be bad but the oil on the plugs has probably bu; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00439.html (8,983 bytes)
10. Re: Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: "U. Goettsch" <ulix@u.washington.edu>; Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 17:01:13 -0800 (PST); I think Tim is inquiring as to a "rering" job, rather than a "rebuild". He might plan to leave the engine in and just change the rings. Tim, if this is the case, you might not be able to do so if you; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00442.html (10,869 bytes)
11. RE: Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: "REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER" <CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu>; Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 02:17:00 -0800 (PST); I am a first time MGB owner who is attempting to "follow the book" and replace the piston rings in my '79 MGB roadster. I have a simple question, but feel compelled to provide a detailed background.; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00457.html (9,272 bytes)
12. Re: Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: jfischer@supercollider.com (James Fischer); Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 07:05:00 -0500; Oil-coated plugs are not a good sign. Has the car started at all since this incident? There are only two paths for oil to get into the combusion chamber: The head gasket (hard to see how a single-po; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00461.html (12,370 bytes)
13. Re: Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:45:19 -0500 (EST); I've never heard of "blowing" an oil ring. I'd suspect something related to your fiddling with the carbs. Especially because black smoke indicates a very rich mixture. If you were burning oil, it wou; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00468.html (9,484 bytes)
14. Re: Ring JOB (score: 1): Author: dcouncil@imt.net; Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:41:37 -0700; Unfortunately, I have. Driving in Colorado, I noticed the increase in smoke from my exhaust and a definite increase in oil consumption. On the 500 mile journey back to college (University of Nebrask; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00475.html (7,642 bytes)
15. Ring job (score: 1): Author: bristol@coastnet.com (JIM WALTERS); Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 09:08:56 PST; Tim: Black, black smoke is not an indication that you have blown oil rings, it means that your carb is flooding or the automatic choke is stuck on, especially if it's a 75-80 MGB with a water operate; /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00476.html (6,922 bytes)

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