Trailered home a 1989 F350 dump truck that looks great on the outside, but the 7.3 IDI is something else

[IDIBRONCO]

So best practice would be to take them off and gap them for the bore they are going into, correct?

You shouldn't have to. you can check one ring if you want t, but you shouldn't have to at all. Since your block has been bored, in theory, all of the cylinders are the same diameter so you could gap the rings in any cylinder. If you were going to gap them, that is.

 

[crazydane]

Ah good point. And yeah, since they were bored, they should have no taper to them at all. I'll just leave the rings on. I did notice they forgot to install a freeze plug where the block heater was. Will call them tomorrow to see if I can borrow the install tool and get one more freeze plug. Will be a lot easier than me taking the block back to them again.