by Donnie Hurt | Sep 1, 2015 | DISASSEMBLY & CLEANING
Exploding Piston Trick One of the more distasteful disassembly jobs in our shop involves hypereutectic pistons. It seems that no matter what fixtures we use we still end up with the occasional piston “explosion.” I believe we have come up with a few workable solutions...
by Donnie Hurt | Sep 1, 2015 | CYLINDER HEADS
Don’t Fall Off Your Rocker Pins Several types of Honda heads have a rocker panel with a set of three rockers together. These rockers have pins that can easily fall out and be lost once the rocker panel is removed from the cylinder head. Before removing the panel, use...
by Donnie Hurt | Sep 1, 2015 | ASSEMBLY
GM LS-Series Double-Roller Chain Oil Pump Spacer Warning If you are using a spacer to reposition the oil pump forward in a Chevy LS engine so that a double-roller chain can be installed to drive the camshaft, use caution to make sure the pump has sufficient end play...
by Donnie Hurt | Aug 1, 2015 | CRANKSHAFTS & CONNECTING RODS
Apply Pressure Here I recently found myself without a welder to remove a check ball staked into the end of an oil passage of a crankshaft. So I applied a different technique to remove it to clean the crank. I clamped some pieces of steel together to form some “caps.”...
by Donnie Hurt | Aug 1, 2015 | OPERATIONS
THE MOST PROFITABLE TOOL IN YOUR SHOP Ask yourself, what is the most profitable tool in your shop? The answers vary! A lot of machine shop owners will quickly say their flywheel grinder or their guide and seat machine. But the most profitable tool isn’t a machine you...
