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Brad, all of your questions and concerns were answered earlier in the thread. the only problem i see is your either reading right past it or choose not to believe it.


That's funny... I just re-read the entire thread and, until I started asking questions, NOBODY (including YOU) got into any explanation as to the source of the pressure being from anywhere besides the top ring gap. Until the discussion turned to the issue of pressure getting past the top ring's seal against the cylinder, NOBODY had answered my question as to why the second ring's gap needed to be wider than the top ring's gap in order to successfully bleed off any pressure between the two rings.

So, it's NOT a case of "your<sic> either reading right past it or choose not to believe it.
". Instead, I have no problems questioning why until somebody can actually explain it to me at a level of detail that makes sense... and you didn't.