# Broken piston ring

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-piston-ring/5588>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** engines\
**Created:** [October 7, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-piston-ring/5588 "2007-10-07T10:13:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Honda-Blackbird](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/honda-blackbird/32/3159_2.png) [@Honda-Blackbird](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Honda-Blackbird)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-piston-ring/5588/25 "2019-06-13T17:17:48Z")

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Does anyone know where I can get back the 15 minutes of my life that I just squandered by reading this thread ?

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**Author:** ![anon86613489](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@anon86613489](https://community.cartalk.com/u/anon86613489)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-piston-ring/5588/26 "2019-06-13T17:30:45Z")

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> [@Cake\_Jragen](#):
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> bores aren’t tapered from the factory

WHO said they are? I’ve read this whole thread several times and I cannot find any post stating exactly that.  
They only post about tapering with that relation I can find, is from MG\_McAnick and he wrote nothing about new engines at all.  
Show us the poster.  
If You cannot give us that, then we know who the moron is.

> [@Cake\_Jragen](#):
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> First one, The bore was tapered from the manufacturer and so your ring broke so your new ring broke too.

Who came up with this?

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**Author:** ![eddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/eddo/32/2594_2.png) [@eddo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eddo)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-piston-ring/5588/27 "2019-06-13T17:47:22Z")

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> [@Cake\_Jragen](#):
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> What really pays is if trolls like you log out rather than spam insults about how others use their free speech.

“Free Speech” is irrelevant on a message board. Unless you know of government officials in here trying to pass a law abridging the freedom of speech of any user. At least, I’m not seeing it.

furthermore, no one correctly answered OP’s post, because OP couldn’t give specifics of the engine-  
because it was a hypothetical. His question wasn’t about why the piston ring broke, but why it broke a second time. Without really knowing the engine, the situation involving the repair, or many other specifics, it is darn near impossible to make an assumption on why it broke a second time, assuming it even did. There were some good ideas given, but they were just general ideas.

@Cake_Jragen- you will enjoy yourself here alot more in the long term if you calm down a bit and stop calling for the banishment of everyone on your first day here… there are lots of intelligent folks here, and I learn from them all the time.

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