My "part-time" job keeps getting in the way of spending much time in the shop! It seems that "retired" ASE certified master mechanics are in short supply, and the folks down in Florida who schedule the warranty claim investigations I do are keeping me on the road in nine southeastern states around 1,000 miles a week or more! In addition to tinkering with stovebolt engines, I'm also about six commissions backlogged on the custom deer rifles I build! I'm hoping to get a demo engine built up sometime this summer, and putting it, and my engine dyno into operation on a trailer. Then I can show up at a few events like the reunion in KC or Homecoming, and back up my fertilizer flinging with some facts and figures!
There's nothing particularly new or innovative about these ideas, and it won't hurt my feelings at all if somebody with the time and shop equipment available to build one beats me to it. Putting 235 oil pump gears into a 216 housing involves making a spacer to go between the housing and the base plate, but that's child's play for any competent machinist. Ditto for machining the back of the block for a lip seal, although my idea of using a cylinder boring bar to do it seems to be an idea nobody else has come up with.
Jerry
