Thread: Picked up my Son's engine yesterday.

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Thanks guys for all the info. We have a pretty good industrial supply house here, I am going to check with them for the stones. I am watching a ring filer on Ebay right now, and might try to win that one.

Don

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

For all of you guys that want some dressing stones---when you are around your machine shops, ask for some of there discarded hones from the Sunnen Ck 10----there is always a good amount left over

well that and the CR stones or a green titanium valve grinding wheel .is what i use for dressing stuff after i drop it on the floor now i have two green stones

Pat I get a lot of doubles that way.

Originally Posted by cffisher

Pat I get a lot of doubles that way.

yep did that with a cheap dial gauge funny thing i did not end up with much after that. if i walk round with my sunnen bore gauges i hold them like my first born now both hands .The Drop Test .. least with stones i end up with two one on each end of the shop and if luck one in the middel as well

Yep the sunnen guages and fixture are like the federal debt these days

The ring filer I was watching on Ebay is starting to climb to the point I just decided to buy a new one. I went with the one Steve in England suggested, Speedway Motors. I had to order some rear shock mounts and other stuff anyway, their price was only $ 39.95 and it looks just about like every other one, so I pulled the trigger.

It should be here Monday, so we can get started doing his rings after that. I appreciate all the suggestions on balancing and putting the engine together.

Don

Don a free organizer for pistons & rod assemblies that is 100% will not damage is the 8 pack crates used to 2LT pop bottles.Around here you can go to your local grocery store and ask them for one.Most of the time when you tell them what you want to use it for,they will give you one.I number on the side of it the cylinder that piston/rod goes into just like it would be on the engine.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

The ring filer I was watching on Ebay is starting to climb to the point I just decided to buy a new one. I went with the one Steve in England suggested, Speedway Motors. I had to order some rear shock mounts and other stuff anyway, their price was only $ 39.95 and it looks just about like every other one, so I pulled the trigger.

It should be here Monday, so we can get started doing his rings after that. I appreciate all the suggestions on balancing and putting the engine together.

Don

You didn't spring for that $279 battery powered version??

Keep us up to date on how it works - the only ring filer I ever used was a new fine cut Nicholson file

With my build,I had the machine shop set the ring gap and I do have a ring grinder that I could use from the race shop and know how to use it.I am just follow the process in the build of having as many unconnected companies people's eyes put this together for accountability.Check and balances.

They work good Don, mine has done around 30 engines and is still sharp, just go easy as they can remove to much very easily.

Some thing worth knowing is Tony at Ross Racing engines, Tony is a Rocket guru and has become a good friend since i've been dealing with him, He is a wealth of free knowledge where Olds Rockets are concerned.

Originally Posted by IC2

You didn't spring for that $279 battery powered version??

Keep us up to date on how it works - the only ring filer I ever used was a new fine cut Nicholson file

yep thats the great thing about a hand file no one wants to barrow a hand file... but every one and there brother wants to use the ring filer

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

yep thats the great thing about a hand file no one wants to barrow a hand file... but every one and there brother wants to use the ring filer

I have a sign on my tool box "My tools do not leave my shop" I've had a few guys get upset but I still have my tools I sometimes wind up with a few extra cars here but the tools don't leave

for that mater get a hoist and you'll see who your friends are

I've never liked borrowing tools, especially from someone who earns their living with them. When I worked at the body shop I kept a tool box there, even though I didn't work on cars as part of my job. But if the occasion came up where I had to tighten something for a customer, or whatever, I didn't have to ask one of the bodymen for a tool. The guy who has the repair shop down the way from our shop has offered me an odd tool occasionally, and I have always made sure I get it right back to him and show him me putting it back in his toolbox. But even then I never felt great taking a tool that he offered.

Don

Originally Posted by cffisher

I have a sign on my tool box "My tools do not leave my shop" I've had a few guys get upset but I still have my tools I sometimes wind up with a few extra cars here but the tools don't leave

for that mater get a hoist and you'll see who your friends are

well own a engine machine shop ..see what happens then . there happy with not taking the tools they just want to build there engine at my shop

Aaaaa,I own that ring grinder.It's at the race shop where it needs to be and not at the shop for my van.Well really I co-own it.