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what causes a ring to go out in your engine?

Old Jun 24, 2008 | 10:20 PM
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haha That would be awesome but I'm sure that costs over 3 grand
hahaha
 
Old Jun 24, 2008 | 10:22 PM
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if only i didnt buy my new tires and that Revo chip and waited 2-3 more months I'd still be pissed off but fine in matters of money

figures


 
Old Jun 24, 2008 | 10:32 PM
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why dont you do a compression check again?
if its a bad ring you will have a pressure drop in a cylinder. Burning oil doesnt always mean fried rings. If you have bad valve seals you would also burn oil.

how bad is it smoking?
always
only on start up
under boost
after driving it for a while

how much oil are you burning?
are you haveing to bring oil with you to fill it up?
do you check it?
does your oil look milky?

 
Old Jun 24, 2008 | 10:39 PM
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and there is no 1 cause to a ring going... it can happen for alot of reasons
high mileage
beating the crap out of it
high boost causing blow by
detonation
or a "just happened" kind of thing.

 
Old Jun 24, 2008 | 10:46 PM
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or even yet you can build a leak down tester and do that. It is the same idea as a compression test but better and it can help you pin point the leak... That way if it isnt a ring you dont have to tear your motor down for no reason.


 
Old Jun 27, 2008 | 11:23 AM
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The rings seal to the cyl walls and form compression. When the rings and walls wear, the oil can slide by and compression drops. A compression test will locate the problem. You would need a hone or maybe even a bore depending on the wear. If you need a bore, you need new pistons and those are $500+. But you can remove the head and oil pan, remove the stock internals, hone the cyls, replace the rings and put it back to gether with the engine still in the car. That would also be a good time to swap rods if you plan on making more power. Just swapping rings would be maybe $1k in parts and labor and like $3k to remove, bore, pistons, rods, and labor (depending on their labor rate).
 
Old Jun 27, 2008 | 12:37 PM
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why dont you do a compression check again?
if its a bad ring you will have a pressure drop in a cylinder. Burning oil doesnt always mean fried rings. If you have bad valve seals you would also burn oil.

how bad is it smoking?
always
only on start up
under boost
after driving it for a while

how much oil are you burning?
are you haveing to bring oil with you to fill it up?
do you check it?,
does your oil look milky?

it only smokes on acceleration
after driving for 8-15min
Im not burning much oil I dont think
because I check it every other time I fill up and it wasnt ever low
no the oils not milky, that would mean that i got gas in the engine by a faulty fuel pump, or the head gasket blew and thats not the case
Oils thick like oil should be

the shop by passed the turbo to narrow down that its an internal engine problem
i dont know how but the mechanic I work with use to work where my cars at and I guess he went over there the other day and asked them about it



so does anyone know What causes a ring to go bad, because this doesnt seem to be a common problem with Audi TT's to my knowledge.


 
Old Jun 27, 2008 | 12:49 PM
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Im almost positive though that its an Oil Ring Internally in the Engine

They preformed a compression check on her with no problems
then they by passed the turbo to make sure the turbo I gave them didnt have a bad seal as well as the last one
and the engine still let out blueish smoke

so the facts are;

-the turbo isnt the problem
- its internal
- it's not the piston rings because the compression test proved no problems

so the only culprit left to blame is.....

::drum roll Please...

Oil rings
because they are more difficult to verify

though i could verify them by driving my car down a hill then hitting the gas as i reach the bottom
but northwestern ohio is sadly hill inhibited haha
 
Old Jun 27, 2008 | 01:00 PM
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another clue I have that its an oil ring in the engine is because when i went in to look at my car the other day I noticed carbon build on my exhaust

 
Old Jun 27, 2008 | 01:58 PM
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Carbon build up to what extent.....just a coating on the bottom inside of the tailpipes? Or matted and thick all around the interior?
 

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