Today I got busy and put together the piston and cylinder assemblies.
Workstation:
Storage container for completed assemblies:
Clean station 1 for carburetor cleaner on the left and clean station 2 for isopropyl alcohol on the right:
Installing C-clip for right side of pistons with the C-clip insertion tool from Stomski Racing - it took me half a dozen tries to get the hang of using the insertion tool successfully and I had to use a wrist pin as a back stop:
Measuring piston ring end gap. Here I am using a piston to set the ring square in the cylinder bore:
Top compression ring end gap measured .011 inch (0.279mm) for all cylinders:
Bottom compression ring gap was a little wider and measured .016 inch (0.406mm) for all cylinders:
