Now I did it.

Broke my 2nd compression ring on #7 piston while compressing the rings to install it...now my build is at a stop.

Now what do I do? It's not like it was a cheap set of Enginetech rings - these are Total seal Gapless. All gapped for the blower I just got the other day.

At least the second ring is a standard compression ring, the top one is the gapless one.

-So can I buy one ring? This has to have happened to someone else before...

 

Maybe you are lucky and the ring broke on installion due to a defect. This is a much better time for the ring to break.

How was the right expanded to go around the piston? Maybe you stressed the thing and cracked it.

In the past I have screwed up rings and couldn't buy individual rings. You might try calling Total Seal to see what is available. Chances are that you can't buy just one ring, and I wouldn't use an odd ring on one cylinder. The rings will have been designed and tested together as a package. Maybe another second ring will work just as well, maybe it will screw with the top ring a little and cause that cylinder to leak.

 

You usually can't buy just one ring; but at least you can generally get a single cyl set. I don't know about Total Seal though, never had to try to get one out of them like that.

Just call em in the morning and see what they have available.

 

Did just that. Called them today, and they sold single rings....so I got two - just in case!