How is your view from work today?

[Sausage450r]

Would you be interested in building a set?

Are they not available? You want true water jacketed or just water injected? Jacketed headers are a pain in the azz. They are literally a header within a header. These ones are smoked. Stainles primaries and steel jacket, steel is nearly 80% compromised. I told him this will get him through the weekend.  

 

[Sausage450r]

This is the material i removed. Usually you try to remove all bad metal but the whole jacket is effed. Best i can do is close up and patch big holes.

REASON #1,2,3,4 why you should run your boat when you pull it from the water till the exhaust is dry

 

[Looney Duner]

San Bernardino today. Real lively crowd out here

But hey, no complaints about the noise from the "locals"

 

[Grease Monkey]

Thought Id share this one.

This is an aftercooler for a Cummins marine 8.3 L 600hp engine.

This engine had 157 hours on it but was installed in 2010. Has not been used, just sitting most of its life in the boat.  Sea water is used to flow thru the core. Charge air is pushed around the core within this housing. Intake temps range from 250-400 deg F from the turbo. Once passed thru this aftercooler the temps range from 75-90 deg F. Its a fantastic was of lowering charge air temps. The down side is salt water and lack of maintenance. This was has not been serviced ever. It should be serviced every year if used in salt water.

Salt water has been leaking internally. The salty reacts with the aluminum housing causing aluminum oxide. It starts to react and starts to grow exponentially. This wasnt cracked 3 months ago. The engine has been consuming this salt water as well. 

Sad day for this guy.

 

[dbart]

@Grease Monkey JB weld and good to go!

:thumb:

:lmao:

 

[Sausage450r]

Had a crash on the forming process on the old inertia flywheel press friday. Dood didnt take formed part out before loading another blank. Tolerances are precision no room for the extra .040 blank. 

Boom! Like a bomb going off. Lucky the bolts sheared and dies stuck. Die explosions kill. Literally like a grenade going off in your face



The machine



we use low grade bolts just for intances like this. Upper stuck in lower and sheared bolts. Cracked the spring box



Spring box. Just like it sounds. Big box with big heavy return springs for stripping part after. 

Every single apprentice for the past 8 years has crashed this machine with various dies. So lucky all has been without injury. No one can stay focused anymore

you can imagine the power involved to crack a 1” thick tool steel plate

 

[Sierra4x4]

Went to the dump in San Juan Capistrano this morning. Pretty amazing view for a Dump. Sorry “reclamation center” Didn’t mean to offend anybody. I’ll have to get pictures next time 

 

[Stugots]

Not to bad of a view for the past few days.

 

[ChEFF]

See Dream Home Build for my days lately. I'll post here for the first time. Hello employed! Peace

 

[Sausage450r]

Lots of engine case carnage this week

 

[Davyjones]

Trying to catch a nap on the floor with a bubble wrap mattress and pillow in between part cycles .... Not working to well 
 

 

[Orange_R]

Are they not available? You want true water jacketed or just water injected? Jacketed headers are a pain in the azz. They are literally a header within a header. These ones are smoked. Stainles primaries and steel jacket, steel is nearly 80% compromised. I told him this will get him through the weekend.  

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I still don't get why JAn builds his headers that way... he has 3 options. All stainless, 50/50 like those and all steel... just do it right once and be done lol

 

[Sausage450r]

Trying to catch a nap on the floor with a bubble wrap mattress and pillow in between part cycles .... Not working to well 
 

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Haha, i have a bubble wrap pillow. Sneak off between the jig racks for a quick 10-15 min power nap sometimes  

 

[ChEFF]

Haha, i have a bubble wrap pillow. Sneak off between the jig racks for a quick 10-15 min power nap sometimes  

My power naps takes less that 8 mins! Love em. Peace

 

[Sausage450r]

Cessna 172 field repair on a .02thin aluminum fuel tank. This will probably last 1000+ hrs if the customers don’t continue to overfill it. Next step is a patch when its down for extended maintenance. 

Always a plus when they dont go BOOM (still had some risidual 100ll in it) I have probably done 100 of these in the past 20 years. Workhorse of the industry

 

[Sausage450r]

Anyone recognize what this head is off of? *hint* its the king of dune quads! DO NOT! Put straight water in your radiator EVER! The iron deposts will eat your alumn! Especially socal and imperial valley water. 



Ready for the builder to tune up with their porting tools

 

[Jtmoney714]

Anyone recognize what this head is off of? *hint* its the king of dune quads! DO NOT! Put straight water in your radiator EVER! The iron deposts will eat your alumn! Especially socal and imperial valley water. 

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Ready for the builder to tune up with their porting tools

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Quadzilla. Had mine and my dads off many times as a kid. 

 

[Sausage450r]

Quadzilla. Had mine and my dads off many times as a kid. 

My buddy had one in our late teens early twenties. I redid the head gasket every season it seemed

 

[Jtmoney714]

My buddy had one in our late teens early twenties. I redid the head gasket every season it seemed

Probably was an 87. I believe that was the year they had one less head stud. 

 

[Don Parscale]

I had a couple of those, this one was bored and stroked. Ran great but hell to start. DON~~~