Loads of Pistons!

It’s been over 10 days since the last entry. Sorry.

It's not that I haven’t been doing anything either. I’ve been doing bits here and there, plus a bit of socialising. I can’t spend all my time in the garage being "Billy –no mates".

The main thing of note is ‘pistons and liners’.

I want to try to keep the engine as original as possible (I may have mentioned this before - yawn). Anyway – to cut a long story short, Jim and Sarah of NB Warrior fame very kindly offered me Warrior’s old pistons and liners if theirs were better than mine (they had all of theirs replaced with new shiny alloy ones when RN re-built their engine).

Plans were made and we decided to attend a CWF Banter at Napton (last Monday). Pistons would be compared and exchanged there. As it happen, I went to the boat gathering at Stoke Bruerne on the Sunday, so did Jim & Sarah, and the exchange took place in the Museum car park.

In the end I’ve kept all of the pistons and liners so that I can measure them and decide what are best. On the face of it, Warriors liners appear to be hardly worn at all and I think they could easily be recycled after a slight hone. The pistons also look better and again. I think these can be re-used.

A few other bits finished off now are the rocker covers and the cylinder head air intakes.

They where a real pain to clean up and paint, but they look nice now.

Hopefully I’ll hear back from PRM soon about the gearbox and coupling arrangements, I can then get the crank etc sent off for machining. It’s sat in the garage at the moment ready to go.

Still... plenty of other things to do in the mean time. I really do want to attack the cylinder heads soon!