The engine machine work has turned into a joke..... First the guy boring it screws up then another machine shop ruins the seats.
By his own admission mr. rpj put coarse stones on his hone because he "didnt want to be there all day" the stones loaded up and put about fifteen nice deep scrapes into the lower part of the bore. I got a full refund plus some....
So, I went out and purchased my own Sunnen hone and the proper stones for resizing aluminum bores and all the needed accessories. Got them in and spent a morning in the shop a few weeks back and resized it myself to 20 over....came out real nice.
I dont have a valve seat cutter set yet, so I figured id drop it off at the machine shop whiloe we were on vacation. Went in to pick it up and the seat faces were at least 1/8" wide and there were chatter marks in each wtf?? Im paying a pro to do this and it looks like s*!t. Pointed it out to the owner and he mumbles a few things under his breath, yells out in the shop for joe. I guess joe is a green journeyman machinist, he tries to tell me it was worse than that when it came in. He put it in a serdi electric powered valve seat machine...lots of power. I guess he gave that lever a good pull and the cutter grabbed into the soft seat, that was it......all they needed was a light scuff to clean them up. Now the top of the valves are level with the deck!
Next on my list is a Neway cutter...I have never spent $1200 to rebuild a small engine :laugh::doah:.
anyway, now I can do precision aluminum cylinder boring and valve work for you guys. I also have purchased a lathe and mill, everything will be up and running by this fall.
