Here you can see basic piston terminology, including major and minor thrust locations. Of particular note is the fact that piston pin offset can be used to counteract combustion pressures on the ...

When I got started in this business over 30 years ago, the common practice was to run tighter piston ring gaps on the second compression ring as compared to the top ring. It was thought that the ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Last week, crews working on MSG Sphere at The Venetian hotel-casino completed the heaviest lift of the entire project. They raised a 170-ton steel compression ring that will serve ...

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Co. construction crews used a Demag CC-8800 crane, the world’s fourth-largest crawler crane (according to Las Vegas Review-Journal), to lift a 170-ton steel ...

Regulating heat and pressure inside an engine is necessary for its healthy operation. Piston ring end gaps play a vital role in that, but they can be easily overlooked as a minor measurement. In ...

Unless you drive a Wankel rotary, your combustion engine vehicle has pistons, and each of those pistons has three rings. Why is it always three?

There's no need to sugarcoat what bad piston rings can do to your engine. Those rather thin cast-iron or steel rings may look small and irrelevant to untrained eyes, but they play a vital part in ...

If asked what you wanted for piston rings in your engine build, would you know how to answer? Piston rings have the most important job in your engine. We will get arguments on this one because there ...

Piston ring grooves serve a larger purpose than simply supporting the rings. They impact combustion sealing, oil control, friction, and many more engine attributes. Wiseco is a world leader in piston ...