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time to go to our Thinking Chair
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so went and visited Nichols and Sons Machine Shop in Sacramento and the only person nicer than the guy I talked to was his dan Glenn and the only nicer person than him was his dad, Mr. Nichols I presume, these guys are wonderful
so got some quotes $20 bucks to magnaflux cylinder heads (brought in assembled minus the rockers) $80 bucks to pressure test them (this does not include the magnaflux and if they decide to pressure test them they do not magnaflux them) I assume that's per set, and not per head but that got me to a thinking, what will the Greg a learn if he just drops off the heads and the Nichols tell him they is cracked or leaking... nothing but if he do it himself, he will be that much smarter so far our materials are: $10 bucks for the steel plate $10 bucks for three pieces of 1/4 inch thick 3 inches wide by 20 inches long black rubber in the pic on the far left (safety first) ha ha |
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alright so first we gotta make some metal shavings
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man that plate looks nice, I would totally tap that
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so let's try it on for size
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now lets add some rubber to this metal sandwich, I give you the Greg-Pro custom gasket
we start off by making rubber and wood shavings this time |
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and here is one metal plate and rubber gasket done, that's as far as I got tonight, tomorrow I hope to make the opposite plate and block off the water cross over ports on the intake manifold side
the plan is to put some fitting in the water temp sending unit hole and pump it up with air through that, stay tuned |
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and so we pressed on and worked on the intake manifold side block off plates
still don't know how to transfer holes to plates so I just use cardboard, I'm sure there is some pokey thing you screw in the threads and tap with a hammer to leave an indentation I imagine, maybe some fabricators/machinists can advise |
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I made the rubber pieces next for the intake block off plates
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and so I made the matching other side, I labeled them L and R just in case there was the highly unlikely chance that my custom CNC machine was a gnats hair off and they end up side spcific - hee hee
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then it was time to rip one of them long pieces for the other long 20" bracket
needless to say that consumed an entire 4" cut off wheel |
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Gregski....digging your progress and long hours......in one of you photos I spotted your (what appears to be) OEM AM/FM radidio and said to myself....."self, ya won't know 'til you ask". Here it is, wood you wanna sell it? I'd love to have it for my 77 shorty.....thanks and keep up the great work. Its a fun read.
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oops.....almost duplicated...had to edit.
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finished up the pressure tester plates today
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and that's the bottom plate or the skinny plate or the outside of the head plate what ever we want to call it
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so that leaves us with the pesky little side holes
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we need narrow metal strips to weld in here to keep these at bay
we even bevel the edges to give the weld bead a valley or a groove to fill |
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I'm sure you've all heard of gassless welding called Flux Core, well this ain't it, this is when the Knucklehead forgot to turn on the gas on his beloved MIG machine, ha ha
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Just throwing this out there but, could the 1.5 quarts you added be because some air worked it's way through the system and finally made it to the radiator? Then the 1/2 quart you added was just from the difference between a hot engine vs cold?
When you remove the heads this most recent time did you see any cylinder that was clean from ingesting water/coolant? Did the engine over heat at all in those 200 miles? What was the operating temp? I'm starting to wonder if you just like torturing yourself. |
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we had the gas on for the other side, nothing to write home about but these beads are much better, hey The Greg is learning ok - it takes practice you know
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you know what they say: "Never time to do it right, but always time to do it over!"
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ok plates all done
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got lucky with a pipe threaded adapter and a 3/8th barb 90° fitting, this will serve as the air inlet
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What pressure do you plan to pump them up to?
What do you plan to put under the plate to seal the head deck? |
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I don't own an air compressor so a bicycle pump was the next best thing
pumped it up to 40 PSI |
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radiator caps are rated around 15 PSI so at least that maybe more, what ever my system will hold without blowing the hose off, ha ha |
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Mix a small bottle of soapy water use it on all connections and leak paths. Check the whole thing so that way if its leaking through a seal you can explain why the gauge going down.
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then it was time to submerge the head in some water
I may do a hot water test as well by dumping in some boiling hot water, but if the heads leak in cold water then there will be no need to go to that extreme |
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so how is it? does it work?
Yes the system works great? here you can see bubbles coming only from the inlet coupling, I did not put any white tape on the threads and need to tighten it some more, but it's a great example of what the leaks would look like posted a video here: Small Block Chevy Cylinder Test DYI Poor Mans Water Pressure Test |
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Did you ever figure out the coolant in this pic? Looks almost like a crack but I'm just speculating.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1475354097 |
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Good morning everyone, just wanted to report that after 500 miles on the new rings and con rod bearings we are still shrapnel free, hee hee
also remember after 200 miles on the new rings I drained the break in oil to replace the rod bearings cause of a slight rattlin noise so far no noises... |
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so yanked the radiator to isolate it and pressure test it off the truck, I knew I had a pin hole leak by the inlet but I was wondering if there are other leaks as well, nope
picked up these 1 1/2" expansion plugs at NAPA they seem to do the job well looks like the radiator cap lets go at 10 PSI, oh well that's good enuff I think |
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using some high tech equipment here folks, let me tell you that
rocket science this is not, don't be skierd, the overflow nipple worked well to hook up the bicycle pump and fill it with air |
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well with no glaring problems with the radiator we moved those expansion plugs over to the inlet and outlet rubber radiator hoses leading to and from the engine and plugged them up
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just like we did with our test cylinder head, we are going in through the water temp sending unit hole to put air in the engine
we were gentle as to not blow up the water pump seals, so just to 10 PSI I removed the valve covers so that I could see some bubbles if any or hear some hissing, but no, none of that I also removed the spark plugs to see if I can hear anything in there, nothing, by the way all plugs look the same, so #5 is purdie now I left the engine pressurised at 10 PSI while I write this up, we'll see if it drops or stays level |
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