Piston Ring Problems

Piston Ring Problems Points : Piston Ring Problems, problems in internal combustion engines, ic, engine a) Blow-by oiling-up troubles due to worn rings and undersize rings.
b) Wear and clearance due to tight rings.
c) Breakage of rings due to ridge formation at the top of the cylinder.
d) Breakage of rings during fitting due to haphazard methods of expanding the rings with fingers and not using the ring-fitting too.
e) Breaking of rings due to not fitting the rings the correct way’ up.
f) incorrect gap dimension resulting into untrue mating joint with the cylinder gap.
g) Incorrect ring gap spacing.
h) Incorrect ring gap alignment in relation to the piston pin axis.