I have Cliff's th350 book, but didn't see this addressed. For my cruiser street car, I'm trying to rebuild a th350, BOP style, probably about a 77 model. It has the torrington bearing, and has the "steady-rest" style stator. My rebuild kit comes with the sealing rings for the stator, and gives me a choice of "scarfed" teflon seals, or metal interlocking ones. So, that's no problem. It had teflon, so I'll just go back with them. So that takes care of the 5 oil sealing rings, but I also have that 6th bottom ring slot in the stator for the steady-rest ring. But I see no steady-rest rings in my rebuild kit. It's a very complete kit otherwise, so kind of surprised that it's not included. I still have the old steady-rest ring that I took off it, which actually still looks pretty good. It's a whitish color. It has square cut ends, so just butts up to itself. Don't know if it's teflon also, or maybel some kind of urethane. I read in the Ron Sessions book that they vary by color, like purple, green, white, yellow, depending on ring depth size, and he gave measurements. So, mine matches up with the white one. I could re-use the old one since it's in good shape, but wondering if new ones are available somewhere? Thanks.
