Posts Tagged ‘Engine Rebuilding’

What is the best way to clean up an engine block before rebuilding?

Saturday, March 27th, 2010
SPEEDY asked:


I have chevy 350 engine i have decided to rebuild myself(my first one). i have gotten all my parts in and now its time to go back together. But i need to clean it to get all the old oil and contaminates out. Someone told me to get a machine shop to boil it but i have called around and the closest machine shop in my area is 70 miles away. Thats a little too far than i wanted to go with gas prices now days. Is there a simpler, at home, way i can clean this engine block. I have a steam/pressure washer. would that be suitable or not? Could i just soak it down with mineral spirits a few times? PLEASE HELP!!
Roughly how much will a machine shop charge me to boil the block?

Bridgeport machine tool rebuild

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$5000-10.000 budget to open engine rebuilding shop?

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
galang r asked:


helo,
i want to open my own engine rebuilding shop, mainly for motorcycle. I,ve googled but the machinary very expensive such CNC/ peterson etc. Since theres not many competition in my area, what i,m planning is the very basic, “old school” engine rebuilding you may call it.I do have some basic knowledge and planning to take basic machinary course ( boring/honing) etc.

kind of work i,m planning to do are;
1. cylinder boring
2. cylinder honing
3. valve job
4. maybe some lathe machine job

please, tell me what machine and tools for the kind of work above

thanks
I,m from Indonesia, Bandung city. in my town we have very little good boring and honing shop. i just want to enter and still wide open boring and honing business.

Hardinge machine tool help

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Where can i get a good book on rebuilding motors?

Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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Loving Fairladies asked:


I used to do some rebuilding and machining, i just wanted a good rebuild book for guidelines and possibly some skills i may have forgotten or can pickup such as lapping vavles mesurements and such. I used to work on 350s,302s and 305s. I also want to get more aquainted with rebuilding dohc import motors, i know its the same concept but like i said i forgot some skills especially head rebuilding.
An In Depth book about engine rebuilding (measuring,lapping valves ect…)

Bridgeport machine service advice

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Where can i get a good book on rebuilding motors?

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
machine rebuilding
Loving Fairladies asked:


I used to do some rebuilding and machining, i just wanted a good rebuild book for guidelines and possibly some skills i may have forgotten or can pickup such as lapping vavles mesurements and such. I used to work on 350s,302s and 305s. I also want to get more aquainted with rebuilding dohc import motors, i know its the same concept but like i said i forgot some skills especially head rebuilding.
An In Depth book about engine rebuilding (measuring,lapping valves ect…)

lathe parts

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