Well the local Gilbert's didn't come through. JET shows 2 in the warehouse but they can't find them. So embolden by my Deves backups I carefully removed the Mahle rings from the pistons and checked them. All were within specs, but at the higher end, which I expected because the bores had been used and honed. Rings are all back on and pistons installed. It all went very easier than I expected. No mental trauma, except the torque specs called for ~40 pd/ft. This seemed rather light to my motor naive brain, i.e. not much pull on the torque wrench to achieve. Next on to cam install. I need some help on "degreeing in" a cam. I thought that this was fixed i.e. by setting piston 1 to TDC and attaching the crankshaft cam gear fixed on the crank Woodruff key. This sets the position of the mark on the crank cam gear. Then without moving the crank, set the camshaft cam gear onto cam with the mark located by the key on the camshaft and the slot on the cam gear. Install the cam so the two marks (cam and crank) line up. From what i've been reading there seems to be more to it than this. I hope this is the simple explanation. Will this work? Thanks again. Bill
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