Reply To: When to re-ring

[andyfrost]

“What surprised me about that engine was the amount of wear on the rings, bushes and big end rollers. Yet the cylinder bore was OK!”

You have to take into account , that extremely few of the machines that come into our hands are all original , many will have had odd bits and pieces fitted to them to keep them running back in their working days.
Soon after the War , my father bought a ModelL brand new , AutoCultos policy then was to have widespread local dealers , who would stock alot of the essential spares. Our dealer was around 8miles away , when cylinder wear started to give poor performance , Father would take the cylinder there , pay a surcharge and walk out with a rebored barrel and new piston , he did this several times in its working life , and it had a HARD life , but it only had one service exhange crank.
This may go some way to explain your possible mismatch of engine bits.

Andy.