Assembly and Fastening Lubes: Don’t underestimate the importance of proper lubrication
This month let’s cover two different lube topics. I think we can help everyone better appreciate what goes into both of these lubes and how important they are to the success of your engine building operations.
Valve Lifter Basics and Beyond
Valve lifters play a key role in the valvetrain of pushrod engines. They go all the way back to the earliest days of the internal combustion engine. The earliest engines did not have pushrods or rocker arms. They were a “flathead” design with the valves in the block. The lifters (also called “tappets” because of the clattering noise they produced) rode on the cam lobes in the block and actuated the valves directly.
Motovicity Has New Website
Motovicity Distribution has officially launched its new B2B e-commerce website. Incorporating many helpful features that provide a more insightful, confident, and simplified online shopping experience, Motovicity continues establishing its Better Than Direct customer relations initiative.
Chicago Pneumatic Announces New Website
Chicago Pneumatic has launched a new website to make it easier for customers to find the right tool for the job within its extensive portfolio of power tools, construction tools and compressors.
Understanding How To Tune Carburetors
An engine only runs as well as it is tuned. You can build a killer motor using all the best parts and machine and assemble everything with the utmost care, but if it’s a carbureted engine and the carburetor isn’t setup or tuned right your killer engine may never live up to its full potential.
Racing Spark Plugs
Choosing a set of racing spark plugs for a particular application is not as easy as it sounds because the plugs have to be closely matched to the application. Stock plugs are fine for stock applications and ordinary driving conditions. But when an engine is modified to make more power and is run under racing
Assembly Lubes & Break – In Oils
Perhaps the most important property of lube oil is its ability to remove heat from a surface where two or more metals are sliding across each other. In much the same way as air flows around cylinder head fins to remove heat, oil flows through a bearing and removes the heat caused by friction. I
GM DURAMAX V8 Diesel – The Next Small Block Chevy for the Diesel Hot Rodder?
If you look back into automotive history, hot rodding and performance upgrades for power are rooted in such V8 classics as the flathead Ford and small block Chevy. But when you look on the diesel side of history, most big torque power plants utilized the inline 6-cylinder configuration since near-perfect piston to rod angles create
Are Carbs Making You Look Bad? – The Best Engine Build Means Nothing If It Doesn’t Run Right
It’s hard to believe that we’re still talking about carburetors in 2017, especially since the last vehicle sold in America with a carburetor was more than 25 years ago. This seemingly rudimentary device has been fueling the internal combustion engine since its inception more than 100 years ago.
Understanding Borg-Warner’s R-10/R-11 Overdrive Transmissions
Borg-Warner overdrive transmissions were first introduced in 1934, originally designed to reduce engine rpms at highway speeds. The early overdrive transmission is actually a two-speed planetary transmission attached to the rear portion of a standard three-speed transmission.
Palm Labs Adhesives Turbo-Lock Threadlockers
Threadlockers are a single component anaerobic adhesive and are available as resins, gels, and pastes. They cure to a durable solid when exposed to metal ions in the absence of air, for example between a nut and bolt. Once the anaerobic adhesive is sealed between a nut and bolt and exposed to the metal ions, anaerobics rapidly polymerize to form a thermoset plastic which adheres to the metal components.
GM Duramax V8 Diesel
When GM introduced its first V8-based diesel power plant in the ’80s, the results were less than stellar since they essentially took an existing small-block gasoline design and modified it to run on diesel. It wasn’t until the early ’90s when GM bought into Japanese commercial vehicle giant Isuzu, that they got the technology to develop a truly modern V8 diesel.
Engine Assembly Lubes and Break-In Oils
Assembly lubes are one of the most important parts of an engine build. But, some components are hard to lubricate prior to start-up, and other parts allow assembly oils to drain off during storage. Let’s address the best way to overcome both of these problems.
Understanding How to Tune Carburetors
An engine only runs as well as it is tuned. You can build a killer motor using all the best parts and machine and assemble everything with the utmost care, but if it’s a carbureted engine and the carburetor isn’t set up or tuned right your killer engine may never live up to its full potential.
Converting Digital Natives Into Loyal Customers
You may have noticed that your customers are starting to get younger. That’s because millennials — the generation born between 1980 and 2000 — have entered their prime spending years. These younger buyers will be spending that money on all sorts of things, including engine and performance needs, and you’ll need to understand how this new crop of consumers operates to capture their business.
The Complexities of Modern Timing
Let’s face it: timing used to be relatively easy. These days, however, as with most every other engine component, the technology and innovation that leads to more fuel efficiency and performance also means increased complexity with timing components.
Avoiding Workplace Accidents
Shops can prevent many of these situations, along with the associated injuries that increase workers’ compensation costs and employee absences. If you walk around the shop and look with a critical eye, you can start reducing accidents today with some serious attention to detail.
Shop Solutions June 2015
I recycle the thick plastic trays used to store and ship 1-liter soda bottles. They work really well for keeping piston and rod assemblies in order and protected from damage as you move them about the shop.
Melling Performance Shark Oil Pumps
Melling has improved the heart-beat of the traditional internal gear pump. It is now significantly smoother through the use of new helical asymmetrical gears. The new gear design provides the engine with an improved flow of oil without the usual pulsing found in traditional gear pumps.
Knowledge is Power
What does a guy or gal do when the next unfamiliar job walks in the front door? Where does one go for technical information about the really old or the recently designed engine job you’ve just been presented with? Read on to find out.