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Having reltuctantly made that decision (I have spent best part of £130 to have 8 spare studs and a heavy ornament in my tool box) I can move on.
The good news is that there as no evidence of blowby on the vertical piston and no scoring on the skirt. I will take the horizontal barrel off to check that one as well.
Thereafter all work will now be final assembly, maybe another 10 hours on the engine, assembling the alternator case, changing the outer crank bearing and renewing the seals and reassembling the sprag clutch then on the other side replacing the pump and renewing the clutch hub rubbers, the big seal in the clutch cover.
Then the engine can go back in the frame.
I cannot say how many hours are left to do because my Excel spreadsheet is on my other computer which spectacularly went bang last week but I susspect now down to 130 hours
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