just picked up some more equipment
A new precision valve grinder. what a difference . and a precision tool lathe for making our own Valve seats and valve guides. We are going for some type of hob machine on saturday. 4 in the country. He is going to start making is own distributor/oil pump helix gears to make different Diameters to get rid of the play.
I didn't know this but there are only 2 companies the have machines to grind the drive gears in the camshafts That is what takes so long to get a new cam core. There are none being used in the usa. All the new machines come from china and the bearings are cheap junk. Finding an old machine to rebuild is like finding hens teeth.
We also bought Bill Mitchels line bore machine that he was using to make his 16 cylinder small blocks. His partner died and we bought it from his son at the end of Long Island. It will do a 5 foot block.
A new precision valve grinder. what a difference . and a precision tool lathe for making our own Valve seats and valve guides. We are going for some type of hob machine on saturday. 4 in the country. He is going to start making is own distributor/oil pump helix gears to make different Diameters to get rid of the play.
I didn't know this but there are only 2 companies the have machines to grind the drive gears in the camshafts That is what takes so long to get a new cam core. There are none being used in the usa. All the new machines come from china and the bearings are cheap junk. Finding an old machine to rebuild is like finding hens teeth.
We also bought Bill Mitchels line bore machine that he was using to make his 16 cylinder small blocks. His partner died and we bought it from his son at the end of Long Island. It will do a 5 foot block.