Hastings Piston Rings Installation

Release the tension of the ring installer tool.

Hastings piston rings installation.

Clearance of 002 to 004 unless the pistons are gas ported with gas ports it is permissible to run the side clearance as tight as 0015. Only open the ring enough to allow it to go over the top diameter of the piston. Rings with a groove in the outside diameter and a pip mark or dot on the side must be installed with the groove toward the bottom of the piston and pip mark towards the top of the piston. Using a proper ring installation tool open the oil ring just enough to allow the ring to go over the top diameter of the piston.

Place the ring squarely into the piston groove taking care to keep it flat. Work the opened ring down from the top of the piston to the second groove. Ross racing oil rings should have between 003 and 005 side clearance. Hastings revolutionized oil control ring design with the invention of the hastings flex vent oil control ring and it is now the accepted standard in the industry.

It is a good idea after installing all rings on the pistons to recheck each ring on each piston for correct installation. Hastings offers piston rings for nearly any application worldwide from automotive and truck to agriculture industrial small engine as well as marine and high performance. With the oil control rings loaded on the piston use a proper ring installation tool to open the second groove rings with the top mark facing up. In this video we re going to cover the installation of 3 piece oil rings.

At hastings we manufacture a bold and broad offering of piston rings one that spans thousands of applications for virtually any engine. Back clearance can best be measured by pushing the ring into the piston ring groove until it bottoms against the root of the groove. Work the opened ring down from the top of the piston to the oil groove. For the oil rings take out the rings marked 3 which are the rails and flex vents.

When you open the box you will see that each section is labeled with a 1 2 or 3. When you do something for a century you learn a lot in the process including the information customers need to know. Not sure how to install piston rings. Al will walk you through how to install piston rings with and without a set of piston ring expander pliers.