Brock, In the last 35 years of being in the machine shop and repair biz, I have had 2 snap rings break and do damage to the cylinder wall. One was in a factory new J series continental engine and it was my own engine.The pin scoured the cyl wall and the pieces of the snap ring got in the groove,when the piston came back up it split the sleeveand I heard the pieces go out the stack. The other one was a customers big cam cummins 350, pin scoured the wall and the pieces of the ring went to the pan and he found them at oil change. It had been running that way for some time,as every 4000 miles the oil pressure would drop and an oil and filter change would restore oil pressure.He had been on the road for several weeks,when he got home and did his own oil change is when he found the pieces. The scoures in the cyl are what was passing the fire and soot and that was what was plugging the filter.His engine was original as in had not yet been rebuilt, that time I put in one cylinder kit and several years later I rebuilt it out of frame.
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