Still burning oil after rebuild

[Anonymous]

Re: Live and Learn from this..

Back in September I wrote about how I was burning oil after a total rebuild, well the mistake is all mine. I tore it down again this year and found I had overlapped the expander on the oil control ring on # 3 cylinder. I could tell this because one of the end tabs on the expander had worn away... gone! I replaced this expander, did a quick scuff hone, reassembled it REAL carefully and now all is tight with an oil free burn. What really thru me off on this last year was the rich carburetion from the 29 smoothbores which had the plugs too dark to read the small amount of oil being burned, or ... could it be my lack of experience on this???

Hope my trials on this helps someone else out.

Moto

Moto,
Thanks for the update. There are so many posts that just drop off before the problem is solved. And it is hard to learn from them.

It shows great character for you to post this follow up and what the problem was.

Thanks!
Charlie