replicaracer43
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Just recently started using the Ampro block cleaning system, so far....I LOVE it. This old dodge flathead 6 looked like it came from the bottom of the ocean!
Media blast or chemical dip?Just recently started using the Ampro block cleaning system, so far....I LOVE it. This old dodge flathead 6 looked like it came from the bottom of the ocean!
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Bake oven, then through a airless blaster, then a tumbler...Media blast or chemical dip?
No, it will melt the babbit, but I do leave the shells in so the blaster doesn't effect the cam boresCan you leave the cam bearings in?
YesThen do you do the same on the mains?
Can you leave the cam bearings in?
Bake oven, then through a airless blaster, then a tumbler...
It has paddle wheels in the bottom that fling the stainless shot media at the block, as apposed to using compressed air, like a sandblast cabinet"Airless blasting" Can you splain please?
Lol!!!!Can you leave the cam bearings in?
It has paddle wheels in the bottom that fling the stainless shot media at the block, as apposed to using compressed air, like a sandblast cabinet
Absolutely correct! It takes a extremely thorough cleaning once it's out of the cabinet for damn sure!The only drawback to that cleaning system is the shot. That stuff gets everywhere. I used to tap every frigging hole with a bottom tap and then blow the holes out with an extended tip.
What those little shot beads do in an engine is devastating. And quick.
Shot blast cab is the same. Comes with the territory.Absolutely correct! It takes a extremely thorough cleaning once it's out of the cabinet for damn sure!
Maybe a more accurate term would be centrifugal blaster, but I use simple terms.....lolA fling blaster. lol
Maybe a more accurate term would be centrifugal blaster, but I use simple terms.....lol
Cause im not ever gonna use any cleaning method that kills perfectly good cam bearings, especially in a bbm.Just a question, why would you want to?
Cause im not ever gonna use any cleaning method that kills perfectly good cam bearings, especially in a bbm.
Cause i aint changin em!
You really think 43 to 55 year old cam bearings in a 440 are going to be good anyway.Cause im not ever gonna use any cleaning method that kills perfectly good cam bearings, especially in a bbm.
Cause i aint changin em!
Cam bearings cost like 9 dollars. I just gotta LOL at that.
You really think 43 to 55 year old cam bearings in a 440 are going to be good anyway.
What makes you think they werent changed two years ago? Ive heard nothing but stories of guys complaining about cam bearings too loose, too tight, cam wont go in, cam wont turn, yada yada yada.
Im not incompetent, i can look at cam bearings and see if they are worn or not, and my cams turn just fine. Why would i want to change perfectly good cam bearings and maybe buy a bunch of trouble?
Might have got away without changing cam bearings when rebuilding an engine in 1985 but this is 2021 and a lot of age later....