1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[PhilA]

Oh boy.

Let's play "one of these things is not the same".

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....mucking funkies.

Phil

I give up. I can't tell the difference.

Look carefully at the words going up the middle of the rods.
The three on the left are all the same, including the cast-in square, the right-hand one is all numbers. It's backwards to the rest.

[PhilA]

Ring a ring a roses
A lotta blown hoses
I smash you
I smash you
We all break down

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Found my ring pliers.

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The rings should be in this order, this way up.

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Not all of them were. I'll clean that lot up and get it ready for them to go back in.

Phil

[Hooli]

Remembering compression rings have a right way up is something I often have to think twice about as I don't do that job very often.

[PhilA]

Remembering compression rings have a right way up is something I often have to think twice about as I don't do that job very often.

As a bodyshop/garage they should be on top of remembering these things, because doing this kind of work isn't a one-off...

[Hooli]

Indeed so, I seem to do it about once a decade currently. I'd hope they do it a lot more often.

[panhard65]

When I did the Thunderbird engine I did find the ring set wasn't the easiest to work out what went where and which way up but I think that was probably just cheap rings from Rockauto.

[PhilA]

When I did the Thunderbird engine I did find the ring set wasn't the easiest to work out what went where and which way up but I think that was probably just cheap rings from Rockauto.

Granted, when they don't come with instructions it is a pain, but these guys were apparently proper hotrod builders...

[paulplom]

No, Boyd Coddington was a hotrod builder.

[PhilA]

No, Boyd Coddington was a hotrod builder.

"Apparently", not "were" or "are".

[paulplom]

Hahaha