Welcome to my Lotus 7 Replica Blog

I intend to use this blog to show the various stages as I rebuild an old Lotus 7 replica from a bit of a mess to something respectable.


Along the way i'll detail the procedures required and hopefully inspire others to do similar.



Photobucket




Thursday, January 22, 2009

New Rings

Decided to put new rings in the 20v.
Quite easy to do really, drop the sump, loosen the rod bolts, take the head off and remove piston/rod.
Remove old rings, clean ring gaps, install new rings and reinstall.
On 20v's they have a tendency for the oil control rings to gunge up, this causes massive oil blow by and is a real pain.  I think it gets worse with infrequent use too.
Rings solved my problem! No more smoking!
 
 

No comments:

Post a Comment