When y'all change your piston rings do you:
1) remove the cylinder head, then the cylinder?
2) leave the head on and remove just the cylinder?
3) some other way?
I've always done (1), but someone mentioned on another thread about "rings + base gasket = done" and that made me wonder if they were leaving the head on.
Also, is everyone removing the radiators, or doing the top end with them in place?
I'm a good mechanic, but it takes me 3 hrs for a top end and I get the feeling that some of you are doing them in a lot less time- how???
1) remove the cylinder head, then the cylinder?
2) leave the head on and remove just the cylinder?
3) some other way?
I've always done (1), but someone mentioned on another thread about "rings + base gasket = done" and that made me wonder if they were leaving the head on.
Also, is everyone removing the radiators, or doing the top end with them in place?
I'm a good mechanic, but it takes me 3 hrs for a top end and I get the feeling that some of you are doing them in a lot less time- how???