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In a message dated 8/20/2005 12:15:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
13brv3@bellsouth.net writes:
I bet Lynn or Leon
could tell us what happens when you put the springs in backwards. I'm
sure they've "heard of" someone "else" doing that :-
Actually I have not found a spring improperly installed, or At least I
have not noticed it if I have. The wrong spring would assist in the rotation
of the scraper instead of preventing it. The life of the ring would be shorter
by some small amount.
Piston rings rotate constantly with no ill effect.
The life of the "O" ring would be much shorter with the
ring turning relative to the rotor and wearing on both sides of the "O"
ring..
How much shorter I have no clue.
Would a new rebuild smoke because a spring set is reversed, I doubt that
smoking would show up for several hours of operation.
After overheating the same engine for several years it started smoking. On
teardown the inner and outer (stock green rings) were broken into dozens of
pieces. So it had been running with the "O" rings failed in several locations
and did not smoke.
New "O" rings had it running again just fine.
Thats all I have on them.
Lynn E. Hanover
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