What's on your bench?

[59billy]

I started just making my own 79xx clutch tool, the prototypes were ugly and the first version skinny.
Then I made 3 Husqvarna versions on a request as apparently the OEM ones don't hold up long to repeated use.
I've been told the OEM Husky & Dolmar clutch removal tools are made out of sun hardened chewed up bubblegum, so my goal was to make mine as beefy as possible which in turn made them very clutch model specific.
I ended up making a severely beefed up Version.2 79xx tool too - very happy how they all turned out.

Stocking stuffers?
I could be persuaded.
Is this the kind of stockings we are talking about?

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Stuffing a clutch tool in those stockings would the most "OPE" thing anyone had ever done.

 

[Wilhelm]

Stuffing a clutch tool in those stockings would be the most "OPE" thing anyone had ever done.

I have the clutch tools, You source the stockings - lets become legends!

 

[EFSM]

A customer thought his 461 would run better if the H screw was turned in a couple of turns. As he found out, that was just a temporary power boost.
Side note: has anyone been finding Meteors that are coming with Cabers that have insufficient end gap? I’ve had to grind the last couple I installed, while OEM rarely requires that.

Before cleanup^

Runs great!

 

[EFSM]

What are those? Those look like clutch removal tools, but I doubt that’s what they are.

I should have added that they look too nice to be clutch tools.

 

[Wilhelm]

I should have added that they look too nice to be clutch tools.

I did go a little bit crazy on them.

The metal worker in me kept raising the bar, this is as high as I can reach without putting my high heels on.

 

[59billy]

I did go a little bit crazy on them.

The metal worker in me kept raising the bar, this is as high as I can reach without putting my high heels on.

Okay, now theres a demand for videos of you doing machine work in high heel.

I wish you, and your youtube channel, the greatest success.

 

[hacskaroly]

A customer thought his 461 would run better if the H screw was turned in a couple of turns.

MOAR POWER!!!! I bet it sounded real good while it was dying!!

 

[heimannm]

I was gone for an hour or so this morning, came back to find these outside the back door.



Like our old friend Sgt Schultz...I know nothing...

Mark

 

[singinwoodwackr]

I was gone for an hour or so this morning, came back to find these outside the back door.

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Like our old friend Sgt Schultz...I know nothing...

Mark

So, up to the attic with the other 300 Macs?

 

[EFSM]

MOAR POWER!!!! I bet it sounded real good while it was dying!!

When I first held it WOT, it was singing lean and bouncing madly off the rev limiter. That makes it so hard to adjust the carburetor without a block of wood.

 

[jacob j.]

I was gone for an hour or so this morning, came back to find these outside the back door.

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Like our old friend Sgt Schultz...I know nothing...

Mark

That happens to @how57 a lot...

 

[farminkarman]

I was gone for an hour or so this morning, came back to find these outside the back door.

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Like our old friend Sgt Schultz...I know nothing...

Mark

Does that mean you can slip them in the dumpster without getting in trouble?

 

[farminkarman]

Got the new intake painted for my Pontiac 461 stroker. The pic makes it look like raw aluminum, but it is the Pontiac blue metallic.

 

[farminkarman]

Here are some other pics. I just got the shortblock and heads back from the shop. The heads are cnc ported Kauffman D-port for Pontiac. They ended up only having to go from 4.150” (0.030 oversize for the 400) to 4.155” since the bores were like new. With the 4.25” stroke crank, I’m now at 461 cubes.

 

[EFSM]

Here are some other pics. I just got the shortblock and heads back from the shop. The heads are cnc ported Kauffman D-port for Pontiac. They ended up only having to go from 4.150” (0.030 oversize for the 400) to 4.155” since the bores were like new. With the 4.25” stroke crank, I’m now at 461 cubes.View attachment 476741View attachment 476742View attachment 476743View attachment 476744View attachment 476745

How many of your family will fit in that (car)? What vehicle is it?

 

[farminkarman]

How many of your family will fit in that (car)? What vehicle is it?

I can take 4 of them at a time It is a 67’ Pontiac LeMans.

 

[EFSM]

I can take 4 of them at a time It is a 67’ Pontiac LeMans.

“Ok, pile in. Half of you can go on a spin tonight and half tomorrow.”

 

[EFSM]

Here are some other pics. I just got the shortblock and heads back from the shop. The heads are cnc ported Kauffman D-port for Pontiac. They ended up only having to go from 4.150” (0.030 oversize for the 400) to 4.155” since the bores were like new. With the 4.25” stroke crank, I’m now at 461 cubes.View attachment 476741View attachment 476742View attachment 476743View attachment 476744View attachment 476745

Are the combustion chambers also machined and if so, what is the benefit?

 

[farminkarman]

“Ok, pile in. Half of you can go on a spin tonight and half tomorrow.”

Or it means I have to do twice as many burnouts on any given night, lol.

 

[farminkarman]

Are the combustion chambers also machined and if so, what is the benefit?

They are…I’m not sure it provides any real benefit over an as-cast chamber other than the chamber volume is more consistent. In this case, Kaufman’s as-cast chamber is 65cc. I needed 85cc to make this thing happy on 91, so their 85cc offering is cnc machined.