Assuming the cylinders were properly cleaned of all grit after honing (Inadequately and even improperly cleaned cylinders will wipe out brand new rings). Assuming rings were properly installed, aligned the gaps properly such that they were not all in a row, and no rings were broken during installation then proceed.
After that breather is cleaned up. Put the thing on a good hard load and see what happens. Maybe you will get lucky and the rings will seat. Really nothing to lose at this point since you likely will replace liners and pistons if you have to tear it down again.
Moldboard plowing, single shank subsoiler and subsoil deep, Baker fan driven by flatbelt (the faster you spin a baker fan the harder it pulls), Dealer Dyno, etc. would all qualify as suitable hard loads to seat rings.
PS - There is a tube that runs from the front of the head over to the governor top that does randomly flow some oil although it is not under any pressure. The intent of this tube is to lube that upper governor linkage with a splash of oil every now and then. Believe it or not some numb skull had cut my tube and pinched it off on my Farmall M. I had a very random oil leak until I really got to looking at it - it did not leak all the time even. I could have just as easily thought it was blowby if I had just rerung it.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 07:01:01 11/30/13 4 times.
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