Machine Shop

These are some pictures of a tractor bushing that was brought into us. Our customer wanted us to duplicate the bushing on the left. The bushing on the right in the pictures is the bushing we machined out of a piece of hardened alloy to the dimensions of the original bushing. If you [...]

This is a 289 cubic inch Ford V8 engine for a 1967 Mustang. The engine had been previously rebuilt but it wasn't machined & assembled correctly and suffered some internal damage. We ended up performing all the machine work to the block, crank, connecting rods, and cylinder heads as well as balancing the [...]

Here's some pics of a cylinder that is rusted and pitted from water and coolant getting into the cylinder. Our customer wanted to see if it would clean up by boring and honing. This is the #2 cylinder of a 350 small block Chevy. In the pics the cylinder is rough bored .029 [...]

This is a 401 Buick Nailhead block that came into the machine shop for crack repair. The block was cracked on both deck surfaces from the head bolt holes into the coolant jacket areas. We machined the cracked head bolt holes for and installed some Lock-N-Stitch Full-Torq thread repair inserts. The Full-Torq inserts [...]

This post is for a set of 6.0 liter Ford diesel Powerstroke connecting rods with tapered wrist pin bushings. We have one connecting rod that is bent so we will be replacing that one. The other seven connecting rods have been blasted and reconditioned or resized on their big ends. We then pressed [...]

This is the 383 small block Chevy stroker engine we built for the same truck and customer that the radiator from Saturday's post is for. The engine features a complete balanced stroker rotating assembly from Eagle Specialty Products. The crankshaft and connecting rods are Eagle while the pistons are KB Claimers with Hastings [...]

This is a set of Cummins N14 diesel cylinder heads that came in for complete reconditioning. The N14 style engine takes 3 individual cylinder heads. One head covers 2 cylinders. 2 pictures are of the heads when they came in and 2 pictures are after we did the complete valve job & surface [...]

This is a 2.9 liter Perkins cylinder head that is off of an engine that is also sold & used under Caterpillar as a 3034. The engine kicked a connecting out the side of the block so we're going to check this head out to make sure it has no cracks or leaks. [...]

This is a 5.9 Cummins diesel engine out of a 2004 Dodge truck. We thermal cleaned & blasted the block & head so we could get a good magnaflux to check for cracks. We then bored & honed the cylinders for new oversize pistons, align honed the housing bore, and surfaced / squared [...]

This is a Dodge 318 V8 performance engine we rebuilt for a 1947 Chrysler sedan. The engine came in after sitting out in the elements for several years. We thermal cleaned & blasted it before performing all the machine work including balancing the crankshaft and the rotating assembly. For all your machining and [...]