They are getting it done

Doing it old school style. No air or battery impact wrenches or even ratchets for the sockets. Also no torque wrenches that I saw either.

Video is a complete engine teardown and rebuild. It runs and sounds good afterwards too.
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OSHA would have a field day though with the sandals and other safety issues.

There is a video that shows a machinist, most likely from the same country, welding a broken crank back together. The crank was broken off at the front main. This guy took a cut piece just behind the front main machined both both and welded the crank back together. He then cleaned up the rod journal and straightened the crank. It was very interesting. At the end the machinist just stacked the finished crank against a bunch of rebuilt crankshafts. I wonder how many of them were welded back together?


OTJ

I watch some of those videos every one in a while. Amazing what can be done with a minimum of tools if you're not in a hurry.

I've seen that one also about the welded crankshaft. I was curious about how long it would last.

(quoted from post at 09:59:48 03/25/22) Doing it old school style. No air or battery impact wrenches or even ratchets for the sockets. Also no torque wrenches that I saw either.

Video is a complete engine teardown and rebuild. It runs and sounds good afterwards too.
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Incredible; especially the low tech torque wrenches. Accurate to within a whisker.......

(quoted from post at 08:01:49 03/25/22) OSHA would have a field day though with the sandals and other safety issues.

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As just an aside, OSHA had prevented more work than any other agency in history and needs to be destroyed.

Having machining capabilities like that,it's probably the best and only shop in the area!

Really like how clean the assembly area is. The cleaning solvent in the parts cleaner they used after machining the head is special, too. And the valve spring compressor is high tech at it's best. Wonder how long the warranty is?

Just add hoisting, an indoors location, and Torque wrenches. Experience drives the foundation of success. Jim

Well there have been a couple times where no torque wrench was harmed during a quick tear down and back together . Between runs when one did not get the right pill installed in the fuel system . A close friend of mine ran a Modified tractor that ran a Donavan Hemi with a 8-71 and hilborn injection on Al-KI-Hol For those of you that don't know what a Donavan Hemi is it is a take off of the old Chrysler 392 Hemi and is stroked and bored out to 478 Cu in made out of all Alum. On a Saturday evening he misjudged the fuel set and got her to lean and KEEEERRRRRRRBOOOOOOMMMMMM . put two rods out the side broke the block broke the crank broke the girdle and the pan . This was a big weekend of pulling . He ran Friday evening and won both classes and was looking for the same on Saturday then the big pull Sunday. we got it loaded and back down to my shop and got it out and apart in no time and looking at the damage . The block was some what and easy fix till we saw the other damage , she was cracked from the center main up to the cam bearing . Ok we are going to try this so the welder got switched over to Aluim. patches were cut from 1/2 Aluim. plate and welded in Veed the crack in the web and weld it thru the oil galley . Called the guy that owned Ohio Drill and Dean got us a long 5/16 drill bit to redrill the oil galley . Made a second call to my friend that had one of the best engine shops this side of the big creek and off to dick we went with a new girdle in hand and did a line bore and some other touch up machine work . Back to the shop and installed 8 new sleeves and pistons on a new crank head back on and back to gether back in the tractor and fired up loaded up and made it to the pull and was the last tractor in the class to sign in and last to pull and the only one out the gate both times . they were a neat engine to work on and playen with Ak-KI-HOL you made lots of spare parts . When swapping out pistons between classes it was my CP 745 and my Ingersal butter fly 3/8s impacts . Just like the boys running AA/FD that eat and engine on each pass. You do the right head i'll get the left and you do the bottom end . Three guys doing the work and it's nice to have a GOPHER to help . Guess it was back in 69-70 while at a local watering hole one Friday evening and well on my way to becoming under the alfuence of Ink o Hol the Haley Boys showed up and Dave the oldest came up to me and asked if i was planning on going to the pull on Saturday evening and if so to have my tractor down to the Ford Dealer to load and they would haul me down on there semi. And i said ok and we head a few more to the point it was a good thing i was driving because i was in no condition to walk . got home somewhere around 3:30 and died . At 6 i was work up by the phone and it was Dave telling me to get down there just as fast as my Road Runner could get me there i had and engine to build so they could take that tractor to the pull. I got there around 8 with a vary fuzzy head that was pounding and there lay a Ford 427 in KIT form all cleaned up fresh from the machine shop all new pieces and parts and a Cockshutte 40 in kit form . By 1:30 it was together hanging over the tractor while Dave and his brother Dale were building the motor mounts and doing the rest of the fab work , by 3 i was doing the final settings on a running engine , at 4 it was out behind the round top doing test pulls . They had set someone earlier to get my 450 and get it down to the loading dock when i ran home to change and head for the pulls . Here again no torque wrench was harmed . and yep she was a winner . Back then that was my Day job as a performance tech for a large local Ford dealer that ran two dealer cars on the strip with the Ford Drag club .

(quoted from post at 08:38:22 03/25/22) Really like how clean the assembly area is. The cleaning solvent in the parts cleaner they used after machining the head is special, too. And the valve spring compressor is high tech at it's best. Wonder how long the warranty is?

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If the guys were Americans doing the same thing, all you guys would be thumping your chests and cheering, "GIT-R-DONE! EFF OSHA! MURICA BABY! YEE HAW!!"

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(quoted from post at 08:01:49 03/25/22) OSHA would have a field day though with the sandals and other safety issues.

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As just an aside, OSHA had prevented more work than any other agency in history and needs to be destroyed.

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True. They started out as a well-intentioned agency meant to protect workers from truly unavoidably dangerous working conditions. I mean places where it wasn't if you got hurt, but when, and how badly. Unfortunately they need to justify their jobs and the only way to do that is to keep expanding the scope.

I was wondering when the l can do it better-ism was going to start. Some years ago, a young lady connected with Steiner tractors did a YouTube bit on putting a sleeve and piston in a 706. Someone from this forum posted the url link so everyone could see it.There were those on this forum who felt it necessary to belittle her over technique because -she didnt do it right-. And she WAS in a clean shop and she DID USE a torque wrench. Youre supposed to encourage young kids, not scoff at their mistakes. Some guys think they are born with the knowledge.

(quoted from post at 10:54:33 03/25/22) I was wondering when the l can do it better-ism was going to start. Some years ago, a young lady connected with Steiner tractors did a YouTube bit on putting a sleeve and piston in a 706. Someone from this forum posted the url link so everyone could see it.There were those on this forum who felt it necessary to belittle her over technique because -she didnt do it right-. And she WAS in a clean shop and she DID USE a torque wrench. Youre supposed to encourage young kids, not scoff at their mistakes. Some guys think they are born with the knowledge.

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You forgot to mention those folks are also the only ones to ever successfully complete a job without issues.

Well OSHA isnt in that country so why even bring it up.

Vito

I rebuilt a tractor motor and didn't use a torque wrench and I got'er done. It was two year before I found out how lucky I was. I had to tear It down for another problem. I had tighten the rod bolts so tight that I stretched the bolts. the 3/8 bolts were only 5/16 in one spot. Any one of them could have broke during the two year run. I put It back togather with new rod bolts and a torque wrench

These guys have it good compared to the guys last week who were casting cylinder liners in the outdoor furnace with their sandals on . These guys might lop a toe off the foundry workers might burn their whole foot or feet off

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One grunt for 50 foot pounds two grunts and 1 small one for 125 ??

Most people dont have the feel for how a bolt should feel
when tightening it . Im pretty sure these guys have done it
once or twice

(quoted from post at 04:01:07 03/26/22) Most people dont have the feel for how a bolt should feel
when tightening it . Im pretty sure these guys have done it
once or twice

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My guess is that you are right. There doesn't seem to be anything haphazard about how they go about stuff, including the dudes pulling the final torque on reassembly.

Thats Rachel . She ketches a hard time because her videos are staged and she never gets dirty . Shes a good mechanic no matter but some people just like to grippe

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(quoted from post at 08:01:49 03/25/22) OSHA would have a field day though with the sandals and other safety issues.

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As just an aside, OSHA had prevented more work than any other agency in history and needs to be destroyed.

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Lets go back to the good old days of crippled and killed employees .

(quoted from post at 10:01:49 03/25/22) OSHA would have a field day though with the sandals and other safety issues.

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OSHA doesn't have a thing to say with places with less than a certain number of employees. I forget what the number is, but 50 sounds right. Record keeping on injuries is different and I think that's 10.

I've worked with OSHA guys on the LE end. I don't have much good to say about them.