If it ran a month ago then why don't it run now? Or does it? How did it run when it did? How do you know it needs rings? What do you expect to gain by cleaning the "heads" up??? Sounds to me like you would just love to do your first engine overhaul just to prove you can do it and learn something along the way. Great!! Did the same thing when I was 15 only on a lawn mower engine,then motorcycle and then cars after that. Best advice I can give you is to FIRST learn the basic theory of operation of the 4 stroke cycle engine and then a "how-to" manual on gas engine re-building. Don't turn a bolt until you have done this. There is a right way and a LOT of WRONG ways to tear down an engine for re-build. DO NOT just tear it apart and throw everything in a box. If you READ first you will know why. YOU can either prove your buddy wrong OR you can prove him right. Get educated FIRST and he will be wrong! Before you touch it you need to perform a compression test AND a leak-down test. These will tell you what the engine "needs" , if anything. The "book" will tell you what these are and how to do them and what they will tell you . Good luck on your adventure!
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Today's Featured Article - Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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