brotherbear

The water neck returns coolant to the radiator and is part of the thermostat housing bolted to the front of the intake manifold. Its...

The insanely high temperatures and daily warnings about our shaky (Texas) power grid limited my shop time to a handful of midnight hours...

Houston, we have a problem ... The first photo shows the highest outdoor temperature I've experienced in my entire 75 years, and that...

Before starting on the main bearings, a few loose ends need to be tied up on the block including the machining of the cylinder liners...

Wrapping up the crankshaft ... The sections were clamped horizontally in the vise so the alignment flats on each end could be machined...

As mentioned earlier, I'm probably trading one set of problems for another ... The distortion left in the workpieces by the rod journal...

Continuing on with the pieced-together crankshaft ... The first step was to bandsaw four workpieces from a length of Stressproof...

I recently got interested in building pistols. Here is my first one. It is a .17 cal blackpowder muzzle loading derringer.

Terry, I'm wondering what the downside is of a simple pressed construction, as per motorcycle crankshafts? You could easily make all...

Although it may be a swap of one set of problems for another, the current plan is to machine the 289's crankshaft as four separate...