Machine Shop

Here are some pics of a blade hanger we reconditioned. The piece is labeled as a bracket by Caterpillar with part number 478-8991. The blade, or moldboard, on an 18M grader hang from this bracket. The rectangular shaped slots house brass wear shims which the blade, or moldboard, slide in. We first machine the three [...]

Here are some pics of some parts we've been machining & working on for the Speed UTV's. We have come up with our own version of a manual alternator belt tensioner. We only have a couple hundred miles on it right now but so far it appears to be holding up well & the belt [...]

Here are some before, during & after pics of an old cast iron water pump we rebuilt. The water pump is a 1930 Dodge Brothers. When we got the pump all disassembled we found the housing to be extremely pitted & corroded. The shaft of the pump was also badly pitted & corroded. We machined [...]

Here are some pics of a couple of hydraulic cylinders we rebuilt. Both cylinders were extensively worn & damaged. The one cylinder had bad scoring in the bore as the shaft was bent. The pistons & seals were also badly worn in both cylinders. New gland nuts, pistons & rod ends were fabricated & [...]

Here are some before, during & after pics of an old cast iron Hercules water pump we rebuilt. Antique & obsolete water pumps come in for repair & reconditioning quite often. We completely disassemble the pumps & blast all the parts down to the raw base metal. Most of the time the shafts are [...]

Here are some pics of a Caterpillar 834H RTD, Rubber Tire or Wheel Dozer, blade stabilizer we reconditioned. The blade stabilizer is often referred to as an A-Frame as well. The two bores on the arms always require boring to get them perfectly round before welding the bores up & then machining them back [...]

Here’s some pics of a Toyota 4-Runner V6 engine we finished to a shortblock assembly. After cleaning & checking the block, crank & rods for cracks we performed all the machine work. The block got the housing bore align honed, the cylinders bored & honed for new oversize pistons & the decks surfaced & [...]

Here are some pics of an old antique cast iron water pump that came in leaking off of a Hercules gas engine. We completely disassembled the pump & blasted all the pieces & parts clean to bare metal. We ended up having to machine a new shaft as the original shaft was badly worn [...]

Here are some pics of an aluminum inline six cylinder Toyota 2JZ cylinder head that we did a three angle valve job & surface to. We painted the valve seats with some blue Dykem before machining them so we could better see when they were cleaned up. A closer look at some of the pics [...]

Here’s some pics of a couple aluminum pulleys we custom machined for a customer's hotrod. We machined the old pulleys for this customer in the past but he's making some changes which requires different pulleys. The crank pulley is machined with both v-grooves as well as serpentine grooves. The v-grooves drive accessories & the serpentine [...]