I like to keep my super scrapers nice and sharp. Here's an easy little way to touch them up. I squared up a piece of scrap steel in my mill and drilled the hole in the same setup so it's nice and square. I drilled the hole just…
Jake Sampson Sampson Racing Engines Inver Grove Heights, MN
I like to use reamers to clean out oil passages in old engine blocks that have sat around for a long time and are rusty. If you use a +.001" oversize reamer, you will have perfectly clean oil passageways. Dave Matton D and D Auto Machine Bloomington, MN…
Dave Matton D and D Auto Machine Bloomington, MN
To save my old shoulders and back I had to come up with a way to get the big diesel blocks in and out of the spray washer. This track, with short pieces of angle iron welded on, catches on a brace. It lets me pry them in…
Randy Torvinen Torvinen's Machine Shop Menahga, MN
I like to chamfer the sharp edges on lifter bores after shotblasting blocks. I use a spiral flute extractor and just rotate it clockwise a few times with my fingers to remove any peened over edges. I find that it works better than a lot of my…
Dave Matton D and D Auto Machine Bloomington, MN
When baking and shot peening cylinder blocks, I leave the main bearing shells and the cam bearings in the block to protect surfaces and maintain concentricity. Anthony Rotella Anthonys Marine & Service St Petersburg, FL NOVEMBER, 2021
Anthony Rotella Anthonys Marine & Service St Petersburg, FL
When I disassemble an engine, I always leave it upright until I’ve removed and dropped the oil pan. The rest of the disassembly will be much cleaner as the parts won’t be dripping with the remaining tramp oil that doesn’t all get fully drained. More…
Ron Flood Cedar Machine North Branch, MN
We all heat our oil plugs, studs and bolts to free them up. I found another heat solution, removing stubborn valve seals. I just warm them up with a propane torch to soften the rubber and they pull right off. This works great! Randy Torvinen Torvinen's…
Randy Torvinen Torvinen's Machine Shop Menahga MN
Disassembling an old stuck engine can be challenging. When valves are stuck in the valve guides, try welding a nut to the face of the valve. Now you can rotate it to help free it from the guide. Dave Matton D and D Auto Machine Bloomington,…
Dave Matton D and D Auto Machine Bloomington, MN
On many spray-wash machines, the "parts tree" will scuff up a freshly surfaced cylinder head if it is allowed to touch it. I simply slide some Convoluted Wire Tube over the branches of the tree and the heads are safe. Sometimes it can be difficult to get them…
Ron Flood Cedar Machine North Branch, MN
If you use an ultrasonic cleaner you can use smaller containers with various cleaning solutions in them within the water-filled ultrasonic cleaner. It will clean various materials simultaneously and reduce cleanup mess, time, and expense. Colin Eddy Garage & Customs Dallas, TX January, 2021
Colin Eddy Garage & Customs Dallas, TX