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January 7, 2023 at 8:09 pm
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Good advice fleetwin. I am not trusting anything. The lock tabs on the rods were not pushed in so I am guessing that the rings were done once before and gapped wrong. I checked bore with a micrometer and it was not oversized. The cylinders may of been honed prior as they were extremely clean.. My guess is that the gap was wrong initially and then eventually lost compression due to being sloppy. I ram a hone through them lightly . Checked size at different points. All uniform. I’ll know more when I go to fire it up and see where the compression ends up at.