Machine Shop

Here's some pics of the cylinders we machined on a 5.9 liter 6BT Cummins diesel engine. We bored the cylinders on our Rottler boring bar for a new set of oversize pistons. After we got the cylinders bored to size we installed a Fel-Pro head gasket and then torqued our torque plate to the deck [...]

Here's some before and after pics of a Volkswagen TDI diesel cylinder head that came in for a valve job and surface repair. The camshaft & hydraulic bucket followers were completely wiped out and destroyed. The before pics show the amount of carbon we removed from the ports of the head before cleaning and soaking [...]

Here's some pics of a set of connecting rods we reconditioned for a John Deere diesel engine. We start by cleaning and magnafluxing the rods for cracks before blasting them. We then resize or recondition the big ends to make them perfectly round as wells as on-size. We then remove the old wrist pin bushings, [...]

Here's some before and after pics of a cylinder head off of a 1949 Plymouth inline six cylinder flathead engine. It came in to get cleaned, checked for cracks, and to be surfaced. We thermal cleaned it, shotblasted it, did a magnaflux inspection for cracks, and milled the surface flat and square. Motor Mission Machine [...]

Here's some pics of an Isuzu NPR diesel cylinder head off of a 4HK1 engine. The head was brought in because the engine was getting coolant on top of the pistons. After cleaning the head in our hot tank we pressure tested it in our pressure tester and found all four of the injector sleeves [...]

Here's a before pic and some after pics of a couple of two step flywheels that came in for surfacing. The rusty one is for a VW and the one with the lightening holes in it is off of a Toyota Corolla. We first gave them a bath in our hot tank and the VW [...]

Here's some pics of a 5.9 liter 6BT Cummins Diesel Engine in our AMC Danmark surfacing mill. The deck of the block where the head gasket seals had some low spots as well as pitting from corrosion in areas around the coolant jackets. We milled the deck of the block not only to make it [...]

Here's some pics of a cast iron exhaust manifold that came in for broken bolt removal and bolt hole thread repair. Someone tried drilling two of the broken bolts out and got way off center. We first removed the broken bolts or studs and then re-located the center of the bolt holes. We then machined [...]

Here's some pics of a Chevy GM LS 6.0 liter V8 engine that came in for some machine work. The engine block was a bit rusty so we ran it through the oven for thermal cleaning before shotblasting it down to raw cast iron. The number one main bore was scored from spinning a main [...]

This is a 5.9 liter 12 valve Cummins diesel engine we're doing all the machine work to. In these pics we are align honing or line honing the housing bore. The housing bore is where the main bearings and the crankshaft set and spin. We machine the surfaces of the main caps to make the [...]