My BEST RIX SA3 Rebuild...
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:48 pm
My BEST RIX SA3 Rebuild...
- I covered this a bit in my post on the compressor stand. But I wanted to clarify it.
- I've re-built everything, more than once, on my RIX in the past. Never all at once. Most often the first time I did it wrong and with the wrong parts... For example, don't lubricate the teflon rings when installing new ones... The lube helps them scum up and stay compressed and break contact. Another example, don't use hardware store O-rings to rebuild the piston heads... They get hot and extrude. And more recently I thought I found a way to economize on the teflon rings... I called it a "refresh" process to simply clean up the rings so they compress and expand freely. This sort of works but the rider rings wear down and degrade the alignment of the compression rings... I think causing them to break contact and cause blowby.
- So anyway... For possibly the first time, I ordered all factory parts... O-rings, teflon compression rings, new rider rings, viton head rings... etc. All the exact correct factory parts and it cost me about $270. Then, I think I did a much better job of assembling everything because I learned from past mistakes. And much to my happy self... This thing is now running extremely well.
- Thankfully we can still get factory parts from RIX... So, we should take advantage of that and buy factory parts!
- I covered this a bit in my post on the compressor stand. But I wanted to clarify it.
- I've re-built everything, more than once, on my RIX in the past. Never all at once. Most often the first time I did it wrong and with the wrong parts... For example, don't lubricate the teflon rings when installing new ones... The lube helps them scum up and stay compressed and break contact. Another example, don't use hardware store O-rings to rebuild the piston heads... They get hot and extrude. And more recently I thought I found a way to economize on the teflon rings... I called it a "refresh" process to simply clean up the rings so they compress and expand freely. This sort of works but the rider rings wear down and degrade the alignment of the compression rings... I think causing them to break contact and cause blowby.
- So anyway... For possibly the first time, I ordered all factory parts... O-rings, teflon compression rings, new rider rings, viton head rings... etc. All the exact correct factory parts and it cost me about $270. Then, I think I did a much better job of assembling everything because I learned from past mistakes. And much to my happy self... This thing is now running extremely well.
- Thankfully we can still get factory parts from RIX... So, we should take advantage of that and buy factory parts!