Help! Can’t get rings in the cylinder

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Yeah the arrow is facing the exhaust port. That makes sense about the ring ends. I took the rings off and swapped them and then wasn’t even able to get the top ring in. I’ll give it a go again tomorrow night.
 
I took the rings off and swapped them and then wasn’t even able to get the top ring in.

Sounds like you found the problem right there.

Pull the rings off, grab your feeler guages, Google ‘ring end gap’ & read a few of the articles. Automotive rings are gapped the same way as midget saw engines.

I shoot for 0.008” minimum.
 
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