Engine Tooling

I started collecting some stuff a couple years ago. Ideally, I'll have enough tooling in the future so I don't have to rely on borrowing other people's stuff.

The first thing I bought was a valve seat grinder. This is a Black and Decker sold as Snap On.
Sioux stuff is the most common but this works well. I actually bought a Sioux to B&D stone adapter because the stones are cheaper for a Sioux.



Sunnen Honall valve guide hone

This is a fairly expensive unit that I got for a steal. The only thing more expensive than this would be the Goodson Diamond guide hone or the Sunnen Diamond guide hone. You can use reamers to resize guides but with a hone, you can be more precise.



I'll update this thread as I buy equipment. I have a few other misc. items but nothing major.

 

Many decades ago, I too bought a B & D seat grinder and valve grinder. Also have a Sioux seat grinder.
Used very little by me. Thinking it's time to move them along to someone younger and more motivated than me.

 

Not specifically engine related but I bought a spray cabinet aka jet wash.

 

Moving the jet wash out of the basement it was in and onto the trailer was miserable, to say the least....

Once I got it to the shop I had to do some sketchy maneuvers to get it off the trailer and onto the jack stands. Well over a foot off the ground and it's top heavy.



An hour or more of slowly lowering it down a notch until I could put small jack stands under it.



I used the engine hoist, transmission jack, and brute force to move it into position.



A large pry bar came in handy for getting the floor jacks out from under it.



Finally in its place.



An extra pair of hands would have been great or better yet, a forklift. I'm going to feel great when I wake up in a few.

 

Nice! We have one of those at work. Make sure you turn the heater off when you’re done! It almost burnt the shop down a few times.

 

Picked this up today.

 

We also had a jet spray booth for cleaning engine parts, blocks and heads. The shop used caustic soda heated in the tub. Was very good for removing sludge from
engine blocks that the owners never changed the oil in. They also form flash rust very quickly if not dried quickly, we used compressed air to dry and blow out all the oil passages. Would not want the see the gas bill for firing one of those up to temperature today.

 

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