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- Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:53 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Motorcycle crankshaft specialty shops
- Replies: 4
- Views: 279
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:50 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: SBC oil pan gasket help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 798
Re: SBC oil pan gasket help
Is it a 1 piece gasket, can you cut & paste a decent one, is the pan rail[block & sump] straight & smooth & clean?
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:13 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Cleaning out the garage...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1404
Re: Cleaning out the garage...
There must be a Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity or Lighthouse for the Blind or charity second hand/thrift shop that could use/sell any tools or supplies.
I hate good stuff getting trashed/scrapped.
I hate good stuff getting trashed/scrapped.
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 5:39 am
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Ford mech fuelpump for Webers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1007
Re: Ford mech fuelpump for Webers
A smaller needle & seat can handle higher pressure.
IDK if one is available.
IDK if one is available.
- Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:13 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Main Bearing Question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 682
Re: Main Bearing Question
Holding the crank up because you put in the pistons before it? Wouldn't it be hard to make that pattern from regular factory assembly line machining let alone local performance machine shop stuff? The cap looks cut, but not too pretty. Things were done intentional by old timers and some not so old i...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:13 am
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: motor mounts
- Replies: 22
- Views: 678
Re: motor mounts
and torsion - twist
Sorry, really wrong word
Sorry, really wrong word
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: rocker arm oiling problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 893
Re: rocker arm oiling problem
spec .032 orifice means nearly unlimited bevel/chamfer/radius.
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Rear gears
- Replies: 14
- Views: 674
Re: Rear gears
Is the best contact patch the best for power as well as quiet, different contact at the inside/bottom/root of the ring and any cryo snake oil testimony?
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: motor mounts
- Replies: 22
- Views: 678
Re: motor mounts
...motor mounts can be taken out... [/u] Some might need the engine pushed a little sideways, besides up, to clear things, or cut new stud shorter. Mount/s installed with tension and compression? Slimy so called rubber oozing out? Visible active/fresh line between rubber and steel? Surface weather ...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Cheap SBC aluminum heads..
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3008
Re: Cheap SBC aluminum heads..
Please give description, I/we don't need a pic, and especially a Youtube, if the observer has some ounces of experience, 20/30 or so with enhancement vision, can wiggle a stem in the guide & marker on a seat, observe the stem, keeper, retainer & spring fit and take a guess if they've used intakes fo...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:34 am
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Opinions Of This Deck Finish???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1502
Re: Opinions Of This Deck Finish???
I've seen worse, looked like a body file. It could only have been intentional & was, F'd over a customer on vacation with a blown HG. claimed it was a necessary rebuild, with a parting shot nasty head surface good enough to get'em home by not much. No gasket will seal that without a lot of goop & on...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:15 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Valve job with stones
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1296
Re: Valve job with stones
Will low RPM pound out the high spots lapping makes to destroy a mirror perfect finish that'll cut/crush through the combustion leftovers, or does it need some thrashing?
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: Valve job with stones
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1296
Re: Valve job with stones
Looks horrible, un-dressed or really coarse stone or dressed on the sidewalk?
I don't expect a mirror finish on some materials, but close to it on all.
I don't expect a mirror finish on some materials, but close to it on all.
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:24 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: .120 vs.080 wall 3/8 pushrods sbc
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1435
Re: .120 vs.080 wall 3/8 pushrods sbc
Sure, it's a mech advantage pushing it back, doesn't warrant being wasteful[mass and/or $] about it.
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:13 pm
- Forum: Engine Tech
- Topic: The funk...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 931
Re: The funk...
I believe that if the average person that had a vehicle that was normally parked for long periods that used the modern non vented system just filled the tank and left it for a year they would have no fuel issues even the current alcohol blended fuels which is every where today Yeah, exactly. Opened...