We assembled the piston rings onto the pistons and once all 8 were ready to go, we put the piston ring compression tool on, installed the conrod bearing (and some spare rubber caps to protection the bore from the rod bolts during installation) and installed the first piston.

























We then put the matching conrod cap on and put the nuts on (firm but not torqued yet).



Then repeated the process for the remaining pistons. Check after each piston that the engine spun over freely. Once all 8 were installed, we torqued and marked the conrod nuts.