My B16 is burning oil and one of the possibilities is the piston rings. I'll be doing a leakdown before actually throwing any money at it. Oil smells strong like gas, it's running a basemap from Phearable (stock rebuild, b16 basemap). I messed up when I first started it up...

I've been reading about removing the rods. I read that the rods need to be re-sized if the ARP rod bolts are removed. I don't know if that is factual or not. I paid to have ARP rod bolts installed.

Is there any issues I would have with removing the rods with the crank attached? Do they drop out the bottom, or pull out from the top?

 

Are you removing the rod bolts or just simply the piston/rod combo from the engine to install new rings

If youre not taking the bolts out, or replacing them then I wouldnt think anything would need machine work, unless of course the block or pistons are messed up.

 

You can't take the rods out with the crank attached. Piston/rods come out the top. Crank comes out from the bottom.

 

Will the rods need to be resized again if I remove the rod bolts, re-ring the pistons, and torque the rod bolts back in?

 

No, they do not have to be resized.

 

why would you need to remove the bolts anyhow?

 

They should have already been resized when the bolts were originally installed, so they shouldn't need to be resized again...unless of course they're out of spec.

Be sure to number the caps and rods so that you put them back together the same way they came apart as well as going back into the correct cylinder.