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TONING UP AN LS
TONING UP AN LS On LS Crankshaft’s we are balancing, I always use a tone ring alignment tool to check that the alignment is correct. Then we place two equally spaced welds to ensure the ring stays aligned. High RPM LS engines have been known to spin the tone ring....
BLASTING OBSERVATIONS
BLASTING OBSERVATIONS Here’s a couple of tips regarding soda blasting. Soda is very fine and it can become very cloudy and difficult to observe your work. I have drilled fresh air intake holes around the periphery of the viewing window, which helps keep the area...
WELDING ROD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
WELDING ROD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES First, find the length of your welding rod that is equal to one gram. On my welding bench I stamped the numbers 1 through 5 for that distance to give me a visual reference of the weight of the welding rod. As shown in the picture if I...
SAVING YOUR STONES
SAVING YOUR STONES On the Sunnen CK type honing head, the stones are a one shot install. We all have that box of good single stones though, and various ways to reuse them. I take a single strand of copper wire and lay it in the “teeth” of the stone holder and then...
MAKING IT SIMPLE
MAKING IT SIMPLE When I build my bobweights a simple piece of PVC for a stand makes it easier. Just zero out the scale and add the weight. Randy Torvinen Torvinen’s Machine Menahga, MN August, 2020
SNUG HAS A NUMBER
SNUG HAS A NUMBER When using the stretch method on rod bolts that ARP and many other manufacturers use, they want you to snug the bolt before applying load to the fastener. I found a way that myself and any of my employees can duplicate “snug.” I first measure all the...
