Ok looks like maybe I'm about to be dragged into 2017 (with your help)
This time last year we decided to replace our faithful but ageing Focus and bought a new Fiesta thereby creating our very own Bankers crash/recession.
Turned out well the three cylinder Fiesta give more power than the 1.6 (sports) Focus but gives a good ten miles more to the gallon (even with a bit of turbo thumping), but I need to restore our meagre savings so the plan is to sell my Flash (still got the custom RGF).
What with my knee operation it had sat in the shed for sometime idle, so started to kick it over a month or so ago and noticed it was a tad smoky, probably to be expected, but thought I'd put a set of new rings in, turned out one oil control ring was broken.
So purchased a set of Hepolite rings from Classic bike shop, rings look fine and delivered in four days.
Here's the thing the oil control ring has two parts, the ring and a sort of beaded ring inside it, photos below, I've not come on these before so would love some info on fitting them, the inner beaded ring has a wire running through it, do I have to cut this beaded ring and wire to size? or discard it.