by Donnie Hurt | Aug 1, 2024 | CRANKSHAFTS & CONNECTING RODS
This is a way to check the corner radius on your crankshaft grinding stone for wear, while grinding and without the need to shut down the spinning wheel. Grind a notch in an ice-cream stick or popsicle stick for y’all from the north with the corner of the stone....
by Donnie Hurt | Aug 1, 2024 | CYLINDER HEADS
Here’s a way to remove valve seats where it’s not easy to drive them out from the backside. This was from a flathead block. I tig weld three lugs on the seat I.D. This allows a junk valve to slip in past them. Now install a retainer and locks, and with a slide hammer,...
by Donnie Hurt | Jul 23, 2024 | OPERATIONS
If you’ve got a pile of spray cans from products like penetrating oil with the nozzle broken off, you can tap them with a piercing freon tap that has a hose attached. Drain them into a container and then you can pour them into a squirt can. Obviously, one should...
by Donnie Hurt | Jul 23, 2024 | DISASSEMBLY & CLEANING
I made three of these Mess Containment Carts many years ago. I had a metal fab shop bend them up with a small lip. I made them 2′ x 3′ and 34″ tall and used 2×2 tubing for the frame and also had a shelf for the bottom sheared up and fitted them...
by Donnie Hurt | Jul 23, 2024 | CYLINDER HEADS
Each machine style, or machinist, has their own bolt mounting system for ridged clamping of the cylinder head to the rollover fixture. Our Winona machine has 2 universal T-handles with 7/16″ threaded rod and a fast mount bar it threads into. We have a variety of...
