Am concerned about the rings in the picture below, after reading on another thread which talked about the upper ring being gray and the other black. Both these rings were the same and black. The rings are new old stock and the bottom ring has a ring expander under it.
I have turned the engine over with a socket, hence the marks. It was quite tight, but being my first have nothing to compare it to.

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Of a lesser concern, but still annoying, I stuffed up badly on my colour choice for the base.
I realize the is an engine forum but can't justify, to myself, starting a new thread on this one rebuild. Hope it's OK to put it in here.

The colour on top of can was darker and didn't realize my original colour had faded so much. Even though I'm just doing it up for personal use it still bugs me as just about everything else is original as possible, front wheels excepted, but that's another story.

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Any advice would be most welcome as I really need to get this finished.