by Donnie Hurt | Jun 18, 2025 | CYLINDER HEADS
When doing repetitive jobs, it’s nice to have a way to speed it up. These bushings, with a specific driver will set the replaceable guides to the correct position quickly without measuring multiple times. Making simple fixtures for repeatable jobs will save you time...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 4, 2025 | BLOCK WORK
When sleeving blocks that have stroker clearance work done, I make a pattern from the bore ID and transfer it to the sleeve. This allows me to do most of the clearance work to the sleeve before installation using the mill. Find a reference mark on the block and draw...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 4, 2025 | TOOLING
Use dowel pins or wrist pins that fit snug in your mill’s T-slots to quickly tram or align a cylinder head, engine block, or vise. (shown using 18mm wrist pins). Also shown above is an alternative method. These simple to machine stepped pins, which fit snug in...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 4, 2025 | CYLINDER HEADS, UNCATEGORIZED
The person who taught me to broach bronze liners used hose clamps, but sometimes they crack. More often it’s when it has had a .502” service guide installed. So instead of hose clamps, I bought some inexpensive split collars for 1/2″. A person could machine them...
by Andy Stacy | Jun 2, 2025 | ALUMINUM PORTING, BORING, CLEANING, DOMESTIC, DRAG AND DRIVE, DRAG RACING, ENGINE ASSEMBLY, HAND PORTING, HIGH PERFORMANCE, HOT ROD / STREET ROD, IMPORT, IRON PORTING, LIGHT DUTY DIESEL, MARINE, MARINE, PORTING, SEAT AND GUIDE, TRUCK PULLING, UNCATEGORIZED, VALVE JOB
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