As some of you know, I recently took my motor to a local shop to for a rebuild. My motor was burning oil after I got it back so I had the head pulled and there are deep scratches in my # 4 cylinder. I spoke to the shop about it and the owner claims he sees defective oil rings all the time and if this was the case, he would not fix my problem for free. Ive spoken to other specialty shops that just work on hondas and they said they have never seen a defective set of rings from Honda. I was just seeing if anyone else had come across a defective oil ring set from Honda.

 

He's pulling your chain. There was probably some residue/dust/metal filings/whoknowswhat left in the cylinder when the engine was rebuilt that caused the scratching.

 

They probably messed up with installing the piston and the oil rings got caught
between the piston and the wall. I've seen that happen before.

 

I bet it was one of the scraper rings.. the two real tiny ones that go on either side of the spacer.
I've seen this happen when a Craftsmans ring compressor is used.

I prefer the KD Tools band and pliers type.

 

So Mike you think it could have been defective?

 

No. Improper installation.

 

i'll have to agree with that........the oil rings can be tricky to line up and seat properly on the oil ring land........

 

no. its not tricky. you just cant be careless when you install the piston.

 

Yeah I wonder where...

Warren

 

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My car, before he rebuilt it :/

Warren

 

when you say problems burning oil, what quantity of oil being lost over what number of miles, or was your exhaust noticeably blue in colour ?.

J.