Re: Hard startin

[Tom]

Two possibilities… Are the ring end gaps correct? You would have to take the rings off to check this. Also, is there a lot of carbon in the ring grooves keeping the rings from going all the way in like the are supposed to?

I just finished up a K-45 rebuild, and those rings were not easy to get off. I used strips of an aluminum can, slid under the rings, to get them off without breaking them.

Tom