Pistons!
Billy called yesterday and said it was all done. So of course I ran straight up there to pick it up. Sure enough there it was just a bunch of pieces in boxes. After a severe lightning of my pocket book I was off back home with a “new” engine in the trunk. This is how it looked when I got put it in the garage.
There is how it sat until today. Today I started assembly and that involved attaching the pistons and cylinders to the case. All went smoothly. The rings gaped out to 0.019 the specs call for 0.010-0.020. So everything is good to go. I did have to clean off some of the machining debis from from the top of the cylinder and there was a pice of flash on the oil port of the front “sleeved” cylinder. It seems to me that that was something that should have been taken care of. All in all no biggie. A little brake cleaner, compressed air, and a fresh sheen of oil and all was good.
Now my dilemma is what to do next. The engine weighs a ton and I debating weather to but the gear box together on the bench or put in the frame and then put the gear box together
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