Pistons pieces.

The last few days of the year have had me doing a few other jobs in the shed rather than working on the 05 KD 28. I have also been wondering more and more about her original voltage ….

I torqued up the bearing cap bolts and trimmed the T-Seals on the rear bearing cap.

Then I turned my attention to the pistons once more. All the crowns were helpfully marked with a ‘G’ that I concluded might indicate the direction that the gudgeon pin might be drifted out. It worked.

The drift was a socket on the end of an 1/2 inch extension bar and it worked pretty well with the pistons on my legs.

Next up was prepping the new old stock crowns for installation. I drifted the gudgeon pins out as before and then I have started giving them a bit of a buff to take off the oxidisation. This is the only down side of 40+ year old parts!