Trial fits

The pistons turned up eventually, a week later than they should have. A day earlier the new bearings were delivered, fortunately these only took one day to arrive.

Soon after receiving the pistons, the ring gaps were checked and fitted and then the pistons mated-up with the con rods.
Later that evening the pistons were fitted in their bores and torqued up onto the crankshaft - all looking good, for now at least.

The next job will be to get the block, as built with pistons, rods and crankshaft, down to my local engineering shop to have a bit of machining done.
As I am using the later Triumph cylinder block, it has a recess around the top of the bores, which I do not need or want with the modified cylinder head. Having this recess removed will mean that the pistons are now proud of the top of the block, so these will also need to be skimmed off, hence the need for the crankshaft and pistons to go down with the block.

You might of noticed that there has been a bit of snow recently, so here is a picture of a look across the valley a few day ago.