The ENEMY Of Your Engine - 5 Ways To Reduce BLOW-BY / Watch This Before Rebuilding Your Engine

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Жыл бұрын

The primary job of the piston ring is to seal the combustion gases away from the crankcase. The combustion gases and unburnt fuel that escapes past the piston rings are commonly referred to as blow-by. Higher blow-by equals less engine efficiency.
Also, higher levels of blow-by increase contamination levels in the motor oil, and dirty oil is NOT a good lubricant. Not only does blow-by contaminate the motor oil, it also raises the oil temperature, which also shortens the life of the oil.
In total, increased blow-by results in reduced engine efficiency, oil life and engine life. Accordingly, it's important to reduce blow-by.
In this video, Keith Jones walks through the 5 ways to reduce blow-by. Links to the related videos are below:
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@peterkennette9865 Жыл бұрын

A shop honed my engine, aluminum SBC but used bolts on the torque plate instead of my ARP studs. Rings didn't seal hardly at all. Re-did the job and same mistake, thought I was wrong. Went to another shop, borrowed deck plate for the weekend and mapped cylinders with heads on then near duplicated with deck plate, studs and spacers on studs for long ones. Sealed up great! Gave them the spacers and info I learned.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Sorry you had to endure that, but thanks for sharing.

@jimmungai1938 Жыл бұрын

I read an article many years ago. I’m pretty sure it was Mopar action and her McCandless was being interviewed and if you know his name is Mr. four-speed back in the 60s and stuff he was one of the best quarter mile drag racers of all time and he said when you bought your torque plates up your board them up like see when you first start your shift in the morning and let the block just sit all day long or if you do it at the end of the day let it sit overnight, and then hone it. He said it takes a while for that block to get done squirming around, this is six in a rowJim from Kennerdell Pennsylvania, I have a 91.5 dodge with I’ll give you three guesses. What’s under the hood all right I like your tutorials guy

@roncoburn7771 Жыл бұрын

from the king of rings keith is the man i was having blow by on my harley m8 which is 128 ci switched to total seal gas ported rings amazing how much my cylinders have dried up i removed my external vents.dont need them anymore thank you total seal

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@peterlonter9053 8 ай бұрын

a very informative video . the guy in the video can easily explain technically for those who have a minimum knowledge . thanks a lot

@TotalSeal 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@AaronAnderson323 Жыл бұрын

Great example and use case for a profilometer.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@luliluli1471 11 ай бұрын

These guys know their "onions".😊

@TotalSeal 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@farmer3242 7 ай бұрын

My vg30dett with je pistons uses about a litre of oil castrol edge 10/60 every 1000 kms. The only thing i get in the catch can is condensation and yellowy sludge, no oil. I havnt noticed smoke from exhaust either. It does make 450rwkw. I also have had it re-ringed before. What are my options? Thanks

@wifeswapperbg7 Ай бұрын

At 4:15, someone finally mentions installing head and checking from the bottom. Its never the same!

@timothythompson3029 Жыл бұрын

Also remember it's important to use the correct length head studs / bolts with your torque plate. I saw once were a shop used some bolts with only 2 threads in the block . Yeah didn't work.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Great point!

@WorkshopRebuild 10 ай бұрын

This is an interesting topic and obviously something you want to consider when you run in your engine. I would like to know why you would rehone a deformed bore, without considering a boring process? Let me know if you have any info on this. Cheers

@TotalSeal 10 ай бұрын

A modern CNC hone can correct the deformed bore without the need for boring.

@daveyt4802 Жыл бұрын

239k miles on my Jeep GC. Still running fine!

@user-Dr. Жыл бұрын

Had a 93 Olds Cutlass Supreme with one million 350,000 miles on it.

@dawnmclees Жыл бұрын

@@user-Dr. Holy shit how did you do it??

@user-Dr. Жыл бұрын

@@dawnmclees We bought the car in 2001, the guy did a lot of traveling, clearly, it had a little over 800,000 miles on it at that time, the thing had no rust and drove like new, and the car was in our family for many years, we all took turns, it was the car that was always there and ready to go, we put another 500,000 on it, never had any problems with it, always use Royle Purple oil, last year my youngest daughter was using it while her Dodge minivan was in the shop and it got wrecked, the car with the most recorded and documented miles of history is a 70 Camaro with like 4.3 million miles on it. I bought a 96 Cutlass Supreme that I use for my everyday car now, can't imagine not having one, flawless car, it will have 400,000 miles this summer, not even broke in yet.

@dawnmclees Жыл бұрын

@@user-Dr. Thank you for sharing that’s incredible!!!

@buster321. Жыл бұрын

Hi approximately 1978 I purchased some cord piston rings were the compression rings intertwined together basically slotting in to each other no gaping needed were these the first prototype as they worked extremely well and I can't get access to this type of ring can you help thanks

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

If you have any of the used rings left (or pictures of them), contact our tech department at 623-587-7400. They can help you out.

@daveyt4802 Жыл бұрын

Is there a gauge you can use for blow by to measure engine health? Leak down, compression and blow by seems to be the best methods.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

We sell leak down gauges that do a great job showing the health of the rings and the cylinders.

@gj91471 Жыл бұрын

What about Cryofreezing and High frequency vibration stress relieving? Will these 2 steps not help?

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Yes! Those are both excellent tools.

@Mike62501 Жыл бұрын

Different Gaskets make a BIG difference to cylinder wall shapes. Test them yourself!!!

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@georgedreisch2662 Жыл бұрын

So, the profilometer, is measuring deltas in bore finish after the engine has been run? I see the utility of this for diagnostics, but, not the usefulness in preventing the issue.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Actually, the profilometer just measures the surface finish of the cylinder bore, so it can be used during the honing process to make sure the correct finish is being created. It can also be used after the fact to see the condition of the used cylinder as well.

@AshLongie Ай бұрын

Well this is theoretically correct realistically bore will distort unless your boring block and hone it with torque plate at operating temp i dont know anyone that does that

@patrickshaw8595 Жыл бұрын

I have a good old Kwik-way boring bar that I made an adapter to hold a tiny Last Word +/- 0.030" dial indicator. One thing you can do with it is clamp an arbor in the main bearing bores and then proceed to shim the base of the boring bar to get exact perpendicularity - which is UBER-important. With this rig I have detected an odd thing which happens on sleeved aluminum blocks - the used bore will still be to stock size = no wear at all - BUT THE MIDDLE OF THE BORE IS OUT OF LINE WITH THE TOP AND BOTTOM. I can't think of any other tool that would have let me see that. Makes it impossible to get truly tight ring sealing !

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Interesting, is the middle of the bore tighter than the top and bottom?

@patrickshaw8595 Жыл бұрын

@@TotalSeal No the entire bore was round and to size to about .0002". Pretty sure piston thrust had warped middle of the bore over about .004". Centered up on untouched top of bore and untouched sides of bottom of bore then lastly centered on the bottom of bore that skirts-had-run-on-but-not-worn. Middle of bore showed - .004" other side showed + .004". I thought I was hallucinating but it was all very repeatable hence real.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

@@patrickshaw8595 That is interesting.

@patrickshaw8595 Жыл бұрын

@@TotalSeal I got the idea to do that because my father worked for Moore Tool Company back in the 70s on their extreme-precision Jig Measuring Machine. My rig-up is an order of magnitude less accurate and precise but I do laugh nastily at guys who think possession of a ID mike set or dial bore gauge makes them experts. Where I come from rotary hones are to be trusted to take the bore from one thou under on up to size and nothing more. In the age of Nikasil plating onto bare alloy cylinder walls boring lapping and plating are the wave of the future for high performance. We've run quite a few engine with no piston rings at all - just labyrinth-seal-grooves.

@kiranvraj7927 Жыл бұрын

Could you please tell me the relation ship between piston blow by vs engine speed

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Past peak torque, cylinder pressure decreases, which reduces the gas pressure loading the rings.

@charliedee9276 Жыл бұрын

A bit different application, but how about an aluminum Harley Davidson cylinder that is compressed between the nuts on top and the crankcase on the bottom by way of long studs that run through the head and the cylinder?

@dougankrum3328 Жыл бұрын

I have an older Sportster (SPUTHE XR) that is built this way...cast-in meehanite liners in aluminum cylinders...works fine...long chro-moly studs from the cases to top of heads..no gaskets, cyl-cases and cyl-heads are lapped together...never leaks.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Simulating that clamp load is important when honing the cylinder. That will reduce blow-by when the engine is running.

@TyphoonVstrom Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. With regards to aluminium blocks being difficult to get round bores in- is this why aluminium block engines are now being designed open deck, to eliminate head fastener torque distortion in the top part of the bores?

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the question. The main reason for open decks on aluminum blocks is reducing material usage and weight.

@craigdavies8099 Жыл бұрын

@@TotalSeal Another reason I believe it has to do with the casting process, with less internal galleries it's easier to cast.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

@@craigdavies8099 agreed

@jamesjacobs1909 Жыл бұрын

Aluminum blocks are a bitch to get the distortions out of the cyl bores. That's because of the flex in the bores while honing. The fix is to take your time on the final hone (I like to use 820 stones), and using light pressure to straighten them out.

@willis23jm1 Жыл бұрын

What I did was to torque on the head n then taken measurements from underneath ... measurements can be taken at different headbutt torque value... I make note of distortion , n work to compensate, getting the cylinder as round as possible... But under high pressure n heat the cylinder will still distort 🤷‍♂️

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

That’s the right thing to do. There’s only combustion pressure on part of the 4 cycles, so the benefits of straighter and rounder still apply.

@willis23jm1 Жыл бұрын

@@TotalSeal 😎

@fascistpedant758 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see exactly how the OEMs bore and hone now days.

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

The way OEM’s hone today varies depending on the cylinder bore material and the piston ring coating.

@edogsx Жыл бұрын

I have a blow by problem on a Ducati Diavel 1260, the oil reaches the air box ... i measured everything, the taper and ovality are less than 0.01mm, the piston / cylinder clearance is 0.04mm, the rings are perfect and have a gap of 0.15mm I do not know what to do...

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Does the crankcase vent to the intake? There are some engines set up that way.

@edogsx Жыл бұрын

@@TotalSeal the crankcase is connected to the air box in which it is equipped with a blow by valve. The problem is that we are not talking about vapors that condense but about oil that accumulates in the air box and drips down to the ground through the air box vent, like when a ring is broken ... Evidently the pressure passes the rings and blows the oil into the air box. Watching your videos I was thinking of decreasing the viscosity of the oil to increase the seal of the rings, do you think it can help to switch from a 15w50 to a 10w40? and thank you so much for the help!

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

@@edogsx 10-4, There could be a few different causes. First, check the oil level when the engine is warmed up. Multigrade oils can expand in volume with temperature, so make sure it is not overfull when warmed up. Next, check the leakdown when the engine is warmed up as well. If you can access a profilometer, check the cylinder bore surface finish. That's another area that can cause blow-by problems. Finally, the thinner oil might help, especially if the oil ring tension is too low.

@edogsx Жыл бұрын

@@TotalSeal I apologize for the late reply and thank you for your help, Ducati has provided me with 2 new cylinders complete with pistons and rings for free. I checked them and I didn't notice any difference compared to the old ones but I changed them anyway ... If I can give you some advice you should contact Ducati, on the latest V2 models they have many blow by and oil consumption problems and I think your products could be very useful!

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

@@edogsx thanks! I’m glad they helped you out.

@johnnyhonda7576 Жыл бұрын

The average home builder doesn’t have a torque plate. Is it worth measuring at that point? How about a steel block?

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

It depends on how much boost you are going to run.

@jamesmedina2062 5 ай бұрын

@@TotalSealBoost? What's that?

@talltimbot 8 ай бұрын

Does OldLadyClinton have blow-by

@jamesmedina2062 5 ай бұрын

@anangelshero0410 4 ай бұрын

I understand the importance of bore geometry (after a dozen or so videos), but if you're sleeving your engine how critical is it?

@TotalSeal 4 ай бұрын

Still important

@wifeswapperbg7 Ай бұрын

I would think more critical because you are adding more distortion with anything pressed into the block.

@hendo337 Жыл бұрын

Has anyone ever been so focused on a nearly perfect cylinder that instead of using a TQ plate they TQ down the heads they're using and hone the block from the bottom?

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

That would be ideal, but the hone head needs to overstroke the bore to create the correct cross hatch angle. That means the head would have holes in them in line with the bore. Now, maybe some people have done that…

@nerd1000ify Жыл бұрын

What do you do on an engine that has the head and cylinder cast as one piece or otherwise irreversibly joined into a single unit? I have an engine designed this way that I'll need to do. It's a vintage 2 stroke outboard with a comically low compression ratio, so perfect sealing isn't mandatory, but what if it was?

@clemzahrobsky2137 Жыл бұрын

i saw a dyno test of a nascar cup engine where it lost less than 10 HP after file filing the top ring gap to .125. blew oil all over the dyno room but lost very little HP

@TotalSeal Жыл бұрын

Yep! A little extra end gap doesn’t kill HP, but high levels of blow-by can cause all kinds of problems.