Thread: Sooooo... Smoking after new rebuild...

So I found the problem and prepare to have your mind blown... I pulled the piston out and found that the all 3 oil rings had coincidentally lined up with each other over a recess in the piston. This allowed the bottom oil ring to bend down into the recess and the wafer ring to over lap itself. And yes before you say it, yes all the rings were placed offset to each other during assembly and I have over 1000 miles on it since firing it up. Is there some kind of

interesting, that would never happen again even if you tried