2.3L engine

[rmciottijr]

Hi everyone,

I am new to the station and I have a few questions. I have a 92 Ford Ranger that is starting to burn more oil then gas and with out do a compression test I believe it's from the rings because of the blue smoke all the time. I don't use the truck much so I was thinking of replacing the engine with a junkyard engine. I was wondering what everyone thought about just replacing the rings. I know it's not the correct thing to do but I'm only going to have the truck for a year or two. I really don't want to spend the money to rebuild it, it's just not worth it.

Thanks for everyone's input,
Bob

 

[sleeper_inc]

If your gunna go to the trouble of ripping the engine down to replace the rings you might as well check all the bearing for wear. If all looks good then take a ball hone, run it through the cylinders, reinstall pistons with new rings and gooo!!!!!! of course make sure you check the cylinder walls for wear and get a gasket kit for it

 

[rmciottijr]

Sleeper,

Thanks for your input.

Do you know of a good place to buy a re-ring kit?

Bob

 

[sohc86-06]

welcome to the boards