Ok I'll try and make this as brief as possible, I'm in a dire need of help/advice. I own a 95 RS-T. The previous owner fully re-built the motor and slapped the turbo on. Basically the problem is the rings that were put on managed to shave out the cylinder, creating a bell shape in the cylinder it self. Oil was getting by and shooting out of the exhaust.

I took it to the shop to get re-ringed. As far as I know of the pistons were JE, rods were Eagle, and rings were Total Seal. I bought some JE Rings to match the pistons @ 40 over. The top 2 compression rings fit fine. The oil ring is where I have the problem. The 3 parts of the oil ring go in and wooble all over the place. I'm afraid if I put it in and run it like that the rings will swap place and just let oil shoot out again. Mind you the old rings had about 5 rings just jammed in with the oil ring.

Now here comes the weird part. My mechanic looked at the rod. It says D.N.A. with a part number of 5608. He looked it up online and it turns out that its a company in Austrailia and that it comes in a set of JE pistons, JE rods, and JE rings. I myself have never heard of JE rods. So I don't really know what to do from here. I need to get an oil ring that will fit. Any advice/help you guys can lend would greatly be appreciated. I need this car running by Tuesday or else I don't know how I'm getting to college.

Here are the oil groove specs I got from a local machine shop:

Piston skirt: 3.4815
Oil groove (height): .150
Depth: .200

I called Summit (the guy didn't even know what a 420a was) and JE said they didn't have a ring that fits a groove height of .150

-Eddie

i think your up for a new block, rods and pistons. i'm looking in the book and it plain out says all of it is toast. who ever did the rebuild cut corners and put you in the shit hole. come on, if the oil ring gap had layers off rings, thats just wrong.

I'm definitley not getting a new block. I just bought one and got it bored out to match these used pistons. Thats why I'd prefer if there is someway to get that oil ring to stay. Layering it like it was isn't sounding that bad anymore.

So they had total seal rings on the rebuilt block?

That's probably what caused the block to bell-out like that.


Get your ass on google. You'll find the rings. Check on tuners too.

One ring to rule them all..... <----shoot me.

I'm off to put a nice loud fart can on my car and get a belt to run my ac. I'll keep my eye out and see what i can find for you later.