66 Dart GT HT Whatsitgonnabe?
It's been a little while but I'm still at it!
I've made a significant improvement to my machine collection. I bought an old, solid bench model drill press. It's ASEA brand, Swedish iron. I still haven't gotten my paws on it, as most everything, it's located in the Stockholm area but a good friend of mine has hauled it back to his basement for pickup in January. Here it is in the trunk of my buddy's car:
What is even more exciting is that my valve seat cutting tools arrived from India last night! They look really nice, all ground surfaces. The interface between the main shaft and the pilot is not 100% so there was quite a bit of runout due to it, about 0.7 mm. I took some lathe imperfections off and it's a lot better, roughly 0.1 mm. I'll put them both up in a lathe to get a good, concentric conical fit before starting the work but I couldn't keep myself from having a light go on one of the intake seats. Feels good and I think the teeth are all cutting. The pilot shaft fits REALLY snug in the intake guides. I feel good about this!
Believe it or not, but the guy seems to have ground the included broaches (3/8" and 8 mm) himself. Not sure I trust them fully and I can't measure them.
It's been a little while but I'm still at it!
I've made a significant improvement to my machine collection. I bought an old, solid bench model drill press. It's ASEA brand, Swedish iron. I still haven't gotten my paws on it, as most everything, it's located in the Stockholm area but a good friend of mine has hauled it back to his basement for pickup in January. Here it is in the trunk of my buddy's car:
What is even more exciting is that my valve seat cutting tools arrived from India last night! They look really nice, all ground surfaces. The interface between the main shaft and the pilot is not 100% so there was quite a bit of runout due to it, about 0.7 mm. I took some lathe imperfections off and it's a lot better, roughly 0.1 mm. I'll put them both up in a lathe to get a good, concentric conical fit before starting the work but I couldn't keep myself from having a light go on one of the intake seats. Feels good and I think the teeth are all cutting. The pilot shaft fits REALLY snug in the intake guides. I feel good about this!
Believe it or not, but the guy seems to have ground the included broaches (3/8" and 8 mm) himself. Not sure I trust them fully and I can't measure them.
