Good day all!!

Well, it has been some time since I have had a chance to get stuff done to the X5... I got a nice Ohaus triple beam scale and weighed up all the rods and pistons... One of the new pistons was much heavier than the others and I was debating on using one of the less damaged original pistons... But, on the flip side, the lightest rod helped bring things back into acceptable... The thing I forgot to include on the table was the high to low deviation for the rods and pistons... Rod high to low was 4.2g... Piston high to low was 5.35g... I thought about shaving some weight off the piston, but I don't know the best spot to not compromise the piston integrity... So, my piston/rod high to low is going to stay at a 2.1g... The tolerance sheet I have says the rod deviation is +/- 4g... I think I am close enough... Now everything gets matched up and installed... I have already put the top valley pan on and the rear water cover on... No gaskets, just RTV allowed to dry with no coolant... We'll see if it holds better than the original gasket...



That's it for now... Thoughts on any of this so far?

Cheers!!