How Piston Rings Are Made - Total Seal Shop Tour 

Very nice. There's a lot more that goes on with the rings than I expected. I had no idea that square wire was a thing. I guess without that we wouldn't have slinkies ;)

Very interesting! Thank you for this. I must have installed hundreds of thousands,, when working at Fords Rouge engine plant back in the early seventies. I wonder if they still use a 'bump table' to install them by hand at the factory? Or if it's done by robot now? The oil rings were done completely by hand back then. ( Hard on fingers)

Thank for the shop tour! I never knew there were this many precision steps in making rings. Between this video and the one with Lake Speed Jr I have a newfound respect for what you guys do!

Awesome video! All the right steps done with extreme attention to every detail. 👏🏽

I knew it! I knew they weren't machined from solid stock! They had to be roll formed. Thanks for the validation! I know mechanical engineers with letters after their name who believe rings are machined from solid stock.

No secret! Muskegon Piston Ring & SEALED POWER, Mass production and custom orders since 1901. Bought out and moved out of Michigan 1970's.Nice over view for those uninitiated. 👍

This is a great video with fantastic production value. Well done!

Definitely will be getting my business when I finally get my prosthetic leg 🦿 so I can walk again, I'm going to become a dirt track racer and one of the first to win my local track championship as a amputee.

This is great. I've always wondered how they did such precise machining. love to see a more in depth look at each process in future videos

allways been a mahle fan but i will try total seal on my next build thx to this video

Fifty millionths .00005 or one half of one ten thousandth of an inch.

Translation: This machine replaces 8 machine operators. 06:38

I heard that the "Slinky" toy, that walks down stairs, was originally made for making piston rings. I don't know if that's true or not, but it certainly seems plausible.

85 toyota 4runner 22re totalseal rings

0:49 Yup they won't sell ya something that just fits,it works. I was told to send em my OEM rings for top gapless modification, since the OEM ring was such nice quality. Nice to do a minor upgrade to the wheel, not reinvent it.

Thanks for this video! Amazing stuff guys.

How long has Total Seal been making piston rings?

Very informative. But still we dont know how a ring is made.

thank you very much ! great video highly educational ;)

God bless America! That's good stuff! 🇱🇷🏁😁

Piston ring with a key . That match to a position. Where they dont turn . Amd dont loss compression. Normal ring can match where oil and air goes buy. Blow buy. Patten done. Mick Australia

Fascinating thank you for sharing. Great to see a world class engineering business in USA. I have made rings myself in the old fashioned way for model IC engines , they are so time consuming and hard to get right in the home shop. In the UK sadly we have a fraction of the skills and engineering that we used to have.

You skipped the important parts... you showed us the finishing treatments but not how piston rings are made

None of my old motor builds were standardized enough anymore to order 4 -8 rings directly to fit. I run ALOT of boost, 4 cars, big singles, big twins. Ive ALWAYS done it by hand, perfect to every cylinder (they may be a thou off from each other)

What's the typical turnaround time once you receive an order?

What material is it made of?

I was an apprentice machine tool maintenance fitter in the early sixties in leeds uk with specialloid piston company and piston rings were machined from cast tube roughly machined internally and externaly then parted off from back with staggered parting off blades towards the headstock chuck then a whole other operations porobably alien to todays methods with todays highly advanced elecronicaly controlled machinery!

Cracking video!

You still didn’t show how to coil the ring

I would like to know how you make the candy that used to come with your rings sets.

"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future"(2017).

Awesome

WOW......Crazy good stuff......Thanks!

How are cast iron rings made? Do they start out their life as wire too?

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That was very cool, I had no idea

fabulous attention to detail !

fantastic video god I'd love that guy to do a shop tour of my shop

Question? With rings not needed to be seated anymore like the ole' days, does this apply to all the manufacturers or just total seal. I was surprised to hear this in the video since i figured they would still need seated w the bore somewhat.

Total seal !

Good stuff. I have been using them for many years.

Dang,,

Good video.

Amazing Ring Zingers

Very informative.....loved it

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So do you make rings for a toyota 2afe engine?

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Nice explained and presented.

How do I connect with you guys

Friction Although the friction force depends on the normal force, the second law of friction says that friction force does NOT depend on the area of contact between the object and the surface. Imagine if you turned a box so that less of it was touching the floor. Would that change the normal force? No! The box still weighs the same, so the normal force doesn't change, even if the area of contact does. I think this will interest you.

amazing

The large bore size looks like the 1905 Cadiallac one cyclinder engine I helped my father in law rebuild. WOW

If you design a set of rings for a stock street driven car. Let's say and old fashion cast iron V8 with 4" pistons. When it warms up, the piston get a little bigger. Interestingly the cylinder also gets a little bigger. Stands to reason that the ring grows bigger on both the outer diameter and the inner diameter. A lot of people think the inner diameter gets smaller. I think they are wrong..?? We hear the suggestion for ring gap to be about .004 per inch of cylinder. So a 4.000 stock ring should be about .020 gap. Why would .008 not be good enough if everything grows outward?

u talk to much old man, just straight to the point

valuable information. Thank you.