what did i get myself into ?????

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chuck foster:
if anyone would like a detailed account of how i fix this mess i would be more that happy to do so.

the more he brakes the more money i make, but this time his broken parts interupt my building of the domestic hit and miss engine found here http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=2266.0

oh well it will be cash in my pocket so that helps :D

chuck :wave:

sbwhart:

--- Quote from: ksouers on December 03, 2009, 08:43:26 PM ---Take away his hammers!!!

For your own sake!

Kevin

--- End quote ---

I would agree with that sneak round at night and pinch them, then burry them in a deep hole.

:D

I hate to see machines abused by hammers :(

Hammers are a last resort and only when you know what your doing.

Cheers

Stew

bogstandard:
Chuck,

That is an awful way to treat machinery.

Just letting the original parts (still covered in muck and grime) soak for a week in a bath of diesel oil, and they would have most probably fallen apart.

Those valves will now most probably have to be drilled out now, as they are guaranteed to have swelled up in the guides.

Blasting has done it no favours in the get apart stakes either, just a tiny bit down a bore can lock everything up solid.

I know where his hammers should end up, and not in a hole in the ground either, but rather up another one.

John

Bernd:

--- Quote from: chuck foster on December 03, 2009, 08:32:50 PM ---well a good friend of mine collects and restores full size hit and miss engines.
--- End quote ---

I have to hold my hand in the air to your question. I've since learned not to volenteer my machining skills so fast anymore.

There are two words in here that don't make sense for this thread: "restores" and "engines". :scratch:

If "beating with a hammer" means restoring and he has many "engines" they must all be for static display only. :lol:

I'm with Darren, I think he should take up another hobby. Since he's quite handy with a hammer perhaps black smithing would work for him. :D

Bernd

chuck foster:
well i got working on cylinder head number 1 this morning, and bogs you were right about the valve not needing much to get it unstuck. just heated it with my propane torch for about 5 minutes and out it came.

here the valve is out of the head, now i had to cut the valve stem off because it was bent and wouldn't pass through the valve guide.

three of the four valve keepers are ok so i will only have to make one. i will start off with a short piece of one inch dia. hot rolled steel (on the right)

i started off by facing it off and turning one end down to fit inside the valve spring.

next i center drilled and then drilled a 1/8" dia. pilot hole

then drilled and then reamed a 3/8" dia. hole for the valve stem to fit into and filed a small radius to match the original

then over to the mill to drill a hole for the tapered pin and set screw holes that keep the valve keeper on the valve stem

taped

finished keeper on the valve

new valve keeper on the left, my friend will have to supply the new exhaust valve spring. now all i have to do to finish this head is lap both valves.

now on to the next head...........and it is allot worse than this one was.
i will do the valve lapping last.

hope you are enjoying the first installment on this little adventure.

chuck :wave:

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