Machine Shop

Here's some pics of an antique cast iron cylinder for a single cylinder two stroke Swartz engine. At some point in its life it froze with water in the cylinder & suffered multiple cracks down the side & up through into the flange area where the cylinder head seals & mates to the cylinder. Here [...]

Here’s some pics of an aluminum gasoline powered cylinder head & a compacted graphite iron diesel powered cylinder head we cleaned & machined. The aluminum cylinder head was surfaced with a cutting insert that we use that is specifically tailored for creating the proper surface finish on aluminum cylinder heads & blocks. The Perkins diesel [...]

Here’s some progress pics of a compact diesel engine we’re rebuilding. The engine is a tier four Perkins 1204E four cylinder diesel engine that goes into an Xtreme Manufacturing XR4030 telehandler. We have the engine shorblocked which means the crankshaft, pistons, rings, & connecting rods are installed in the block. Included in the assembly are [...]

Here's some pics of a Caterpillar 16M & 18M Grader Axle Spindle Housing. The bores are worn beyond the OE specs so machining & welding is required to bring them back to spec. We first set up the spindle housing on our Rottler cnc boring mill & machine the bores oversize until they are perfectly [...]

Here's some pics of some Wiseco engine parts we ordered for a Kawasaki KX250F engine build. The main parts for the engine build are included in the Garage Buddy Kit which includes a new crankshaft with connecting rod, forged piston with rings, cam/timing chain & a full set of gaskets. In addition to those parts [...]

Here’s some before & after pics of a CanAm SxS cylinder head that came in for machining to the deck surface. The surface of the head was warped & slightly twisted. Once mounted & leveled on our machine it ended up requiring fourteen thousandths of material removal to get the deck surface flat, square & [...]

Here’s some pics of an LS engine we did a cam swap to. The engine had a BTR (Brian Tooley Racing) camshaft installed in it which was a little too aggressive for the application. Since this vehicle is a Chevy Tahoe which is an everyday grocery getter we elected to install a much less aggressive [...]

Here’s some pics from start to finish of our custom pulley machining capabilities. This is a three groove crank pulley for a Cadillac. Custom pulleys start off as a long solid round hunk of 6061 aluminum. We sometimes make the pulleys out of steel but most of the time out of aluminum. After we cut [...]

Here’s some pics of a blade hanger, or bracket as Caterpillar calls it, for a 16M grader. Some people also refer to this piece as the carrier as it carries the blade & also contains the sideshift cylinder inside of it. The bores for the pins were worn out-of-round & spec. We setup our portable [...]

Here’s some pics of a 555 cubic inch Big Block Chevy engine we're building. This Mountain Motor is based off of a 502 block that's been bored for a set of forged SRP pistons & stroked with a Callies crankshaft to a Triple Nickle (555). It features a hydraulic roller cam & T&D shaft rockers [...]