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Old Mar 17, 2015 | 09:41 PM
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While filing my rings for my 5.3 tonight, I got distracted and filed one twice without checking it in between. Ended up with a gap of around .042. CRAP!!! These are the oem rigs I was just going to open up and reuse. You guys think I should run it, get a new ring or find another used ring and refile it? I'm thinking maybe a new used ring would be better with a smaller gap than running the one I have. It's a second ring. The top one in the same hole is fine. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
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I would chalk it up as a loss and buy new rings. They are not too much anyways. Maybe one of our sponsors might have some old rings laying around.
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Old Mar 17, 2015 | 09:57 PM
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Lol. I know, it stinks! I only need one second ring! Hahaha! What a bummer.
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Dont worry about it, you'll never see any difference.
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But I'm serious, give somebody like LME a call, and tell them that you will share their next 10 status's from their facebook page if the send you a stock used ring. lol You pay for shipping.
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****** run it!
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If you consider the circumference of the ring is approx 12.568" ( for 4" bore )

As you can see, even at 20thou...the gap represents only 0.0016 % of it.

Even a 40thou gap represents 0.0032 %

Really, it is negligible

http://diagnosticengineers.org/journ...dge%20Gaps.php
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Originally Posted by stevieturbo
If you consider the circumference of the ring is approx 12.568" ( for 4" bore )

As you can see, even at 20thou...the gap represents only 0.0016 % of it.

Even a 40thou gap represents 0.0032 %

Really, it is negligible

http://diagnosticengineers.org/journ...dge%20Gaps.php
Interesting article.
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PM me your address. I can mail you one or two slightly used, won't be able to get them
til Sunday though.
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PM me your address. I can mail you one or two slightly used, won't be able to get them
til Sunday though.
Fantastic. I'll send you the PM now.
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