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Cecil/WV · 10-27-2012, 09:02 AM

[QUOTE=Bruce Lancaster;522651]"OK, got my flak vest on and I'm hunkered down. Blast away."

Heh heh heh! Remember the old days??? When engines got repaired, not totally torn down and scrubbed and fully re-machined??
Valve job, anyone, or even a ring and valve job done with engine in car?? On Chevys, which had chronic rod problems, it was routine to turn a crank throw IN THE CAR* while replacing the rod that had just beaten everything to death.
Metal shavings, Clover coarse and fine emery, ring honing, blood, EVERYWHERE.
Cleanup...shop rag, mebbe a paint brush dipped in gasoline...
The whole damn national supply of cars worked this way. For a long time.
Again, less than optimum, and FAR less careful than an experienced enthusiast would do verboten things like this.

"When I was working in a machine shop in 1969, the local Dodge dealer had a new dodge V8 with a scored cylinder that was still under warranty and they had me come to their shop and hone one cylinder to the first oversize and they put one oversize piston in that poor guys new Dodge."

10-27-2012, 09:02 AM	#33
Cecil/WV Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Gerrardstown, WV Posts: 2,266	Re: Lifters revisited... [QUOTE=Bruce Lancaster;522651]"OK, got my flak vest on and I'm hunkered down. Blast away." Heh heh heh! Remember the old days??? When engines got repaired, not totally torn down and scrubbed and fully re-machined?? Valve job, anyone, or even a ring and valve job done with engine in car?? On Chevys, which had chronic rod problems, it was routine to turn a crank throw IN THE CAR* while replacing the rod that had just beaten everything to death. Metal shavings, Clover coarse and fine emery, ring honing, blood, EVERYWHERE. Cleanup...shop rag, mebbe a paint brush dipped in gasoline... The whole damn national supply of cars worked this way. For a long time. Again, less than optimum, and FAR less careful than an experienced enthusiast would do verboten things like this. "When I was working in a machine shop in 1969, the local Dodge dealer had a new dodge V8 with a scored cylinder that was still under warranty and they had me come to their shop and hone one cylinder to the first oversize and they put one oversize piston in that poor guys new Dodge."