[gingery_machines] Re: new article: Aligning to an Axis

 

Rick, the block is cast iron, the head appears to be aluminum. I'll have to test it once I get it out. Could be fun to play with either way! ;)

Bill in OKC

--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Sparber" <rgsparber@...> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> Is that engine block aluminum or magnesium?
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of oldstudentmsgt
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 5:08 AM
> To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: new article: Aligning to an Axis
>
> I just had to shoot my 1985 VW Golf and put it out of it's misery. I screwed
> up putting in the timing belt, and would up with oil pumping out of the back
> of the block, but it still started and ran, and up until I "fixed" the
> siezed timing belt tension adjuster, it was getting about 40MPG. AND
> mid-80's was not their best machinery.
>
> I am contemplating scavenging it for parts and metal for the foundry, down
> to and including the now cracked engine block. I've got a couple of friends
> here how melt & pour iron... I wonder how good a gingery lathe would be done
> in CI? Or maybe I could make a LONG bed for my 7x10...
>
> Bill in OKC <------ Dreamin' again!
>
> --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, James Early <jwearly1@> wrote:
> >
> > I get the most flack because as a car mechanic since 1955 and also a
> machiniest since then most fail to comprehend why I prefer to drive a 1969
> VW.
> >
> > JWE
> > Long Beach, CA
> >
> >
> > Jan 2, 2011 04:03:26 PM, gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > The most bewildering phrase I routinely hear is "do you know what I mean."
>
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brite
> > Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:55 PM
> > To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: new article: Aligning to an Axis
> >
> > Amen, James! We often tend to assume that others know what we know.
> >
> > CT2
> >
> > --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, James Early wrote:
> > >
> > > Frequently the obvious is only discovered after long hours of determined
> > study and experimentation.
> > >
> > > JWE
> > > Long Beach, CA
> > >
> > >
> >
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