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Surface Finish Testing: Dealing with Dirty Patches
Surface finish roughness instruments use a roughness specimen, or "patch," that is certified for a known wave form to provide...
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Surface finish roughness instruments use a roughness specimen, or "patch," that is certified for a known wave form to provide...
How to See Through Pistons for Clearance With the advent of longer stroke crankshafts, one inch plus lift camshafts, raised...
Removing Stubborn Dowel Pins Do you ever have solid dowel pins that are worn or tapered, and the slap hammer...
Using Multi-Layer Steel (MLS) Head Gaskets As the name implies, MLS gaskets are constructed from 2 to 5 layers (depending...
Making Your Own Piston Ring Compressor Some customers have been asking me for piston ring compressors in sizes we do...
Safe Valve Spring Break-In Most engine builders are well aware of the fact that high performance valve springs should be...
5 Tips For a Manual Milling Machine Editor’s Note: A manual milling machine is typically at the heart of every...
Detonation vs. Pre-Ignition (Editors Note: the following is in response to Greg Goss’s entry in the August 2012 issue) A...
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Cold Air Guns use a small amount of filtered compressed air and vortex tube technology to produce sub-freezing air for...
First, place the correct size wrist pin boss of the piston to use as a tool from each side. Then...
No problem, go buy yourself a Tootsie Roll, and after it sits in your pocket for 20 minutes or so...
He used a sharp wide chisel. This works great and leaves no frayed ends. Just put the hose on an...
This way can only be a solution if the hole in the block goes all the way through. OR you...
I have found a few brand new castings to have porosity holes in them after they were torqued down. All...
Once the hone head is in the hole, set the coffee can around the hole and hone away. This greatly...
Timm Jurincie Tuf-Enuf Racing Engines Avondale, AZ
Use a brass screw because it will drill easily. Put in the set screw withLoctite(tm) and install the metering jet....
Interlocking wheels are mounted to the opposite corners of the A-frame keeping the hoist square and on a path parallel...
Brad Stephens Seagrove Engine Seagrove, NC
