Hey all, I'm building an engine for the first time and I have a questing reguarding connecting rods. The engine is a 355 that I'm building. However I am taking apart another 350 and using some of the parts off of it. So on this other 350 how does one seperate the pistons from the rods? Does that pin need to be pressed out? Thanks, Pilot
maybe a texas hamb'r can suggest a machinist in his area? tough finding competant people maybe you can buy a tool that can press wrist pins out... hydraulic press..im looking at one from a co. called Northern tool and equipment, goes for $269 rated at 20tons, bit overkill? pretty sure you can get one that caters to wrist pins.... phone # for catalogue 800 556 7885
A place that was recommended to me, Arlington Automotive Machine Shop, is where I just took them to get done. Said he may have them done by the end of the day. If not defenaly on monday. That'll work. Seemed like a nice guy who acutally wants to make his money by doing machine work. The last guy I had it took 3 weeks for him to bore my cylinders. Kept saying... "Yeah I'll have it for you tomorrow." Did that for like a solid week.
I get all my stuff done at the local NAPA. Do you have them in AZ? Ed PS- The local NAPA machinist, Carlos, won $50,000 in the lottery, and "re-invested" it ALL back into the lottery and lost. Hilarious!
Ed, that machinist losing all his winnings in the lottery is hilarious. I saw a bumper sticker that said: "The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." I think that machinist takes the cake. He'd have been better off taking the wad to Vegas. His odds might not have been much better for winning big, but at least he would have had ALOT more fun losing his money...
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