[Vwdiesel] Piston ring size question

LBaird119 at aol.com LBaird119 at aol.com
Tue Apr 19 15:27:36 EDT 2005


In a message dated 4/19/2005 10:49:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
emailastro at yahoo.com writes:

> The total seal rings I want to order only come in 77.00 a .01 difference. 
> My question is will this small difference in size still work. My pistions are 
> 77.01.
> 


  .01mm x Pi = .0314mm larger end gap, which is just over .0012" larger 
end gap.  Shouldn't have to worry about that with conventional rings 
even.  Ouch!  TS are almost $250 for the 6 cylinder aren't they?  Pretty 
well worth it though.
     Loren


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