Heads are on and torqued. The right side fought me like nobody's business. Hindsight being 20/20, I probably should have bought new pistons but... If this wasn't a Russian tractor engine, I would have.
Anyway, I spun the engine several times, both with the kicker and the button. No scary noises, unless you count the sound of increased compression coming through the sparkplug ports. I need to still adjust the valves, install the new studs, carbs, and exhaust. And remember to reattach the sidecar braces. That would truly suck to forget that.
I have a grandson's hockey game to go to and I'm in Denver until Thursday, so I'll button this up on Friday.