Art & Inspiration Tech School Students Doing Good

Auto tech students today 64 292.
Getting ready to fire it up.
Basic ignition wiring and diagnostic skills.
Compression and vacuum testing
If it has good numbers, clean up, reseal and paint.
Build a carb

 

Fired right up


rpm reading is off.
Around 40psi just above normal idle.
Gotta replace the fuel pump and we can let it warm up and see what it does
No oil change yet

 

Great stuff, Anthony. Gettin' greasy as a teen set the tone for my life. You're a good influence on them. Chevy57dudette is a high school teacher. Loves to teach, refers to the classes as ''her kids''. Youngsters really respond to the positive attention. Some don't have much of a home life, either. No doubt some will come back a few years from now and thank you.

 

Some backwoods head work
Students lapped valves for a 292 Chevy

 

^^^^^ The old power spin and seat method.

 

I guess.
We’re just cleaning em up and installing new seals.
Older rebuild. Could use guides.
Engine ran great on our stand and had very good comp numbers. 150-160
40psi oil
It’ll work for a truck that sees about 3/4k miles a year

 

That is a screw gun the valve is chucked into?

 

Yep. Put pressure on it from the valve side.
Turned at a slow to medium speed

 

Hey, yer supposed to lap 'em by hand with the suction cup stick. Builds character! And a fancy pants cordless drill too....

 

Guilty of doing the same. Now let’s hear the nay sayer’s.

 

Spoke to late

 

I sincerely commend Professor Anthony for all the fine work he does with the yougins. I would run it!

 

Guilty of doing the same. Shhhhh.!

 

I’ve never done that, but I damn well would have if I would’ve thought of it! Thanks for the tip!!!!

 

Lube stem well, always keep lap compound wet, slow speed. Chatter solved.

 

Purge with fire

growing up, this was how we cleaned em
Students bagged and tagged the important stuff

Clean gasket mounting surfaces and a pressure wash next

 

Scrap yard 63 c10 door. Has the typical wrapped around the fender damage that was hacked up some time in the past. Filler around 3/8 thick and typical screw dent puller distortion


we got it to this point and called it done. Welded up the holes.
did the pencil trick to work the body line

 

Valve springs had these shims

 

Man, that is a familiar fix! Seems most of those trucks have that damage and crappy repairs.

 

Final clean on these old valves to get the compound off. Pressure washed the head and cleaned gasket surfaces.
New o rings installed with the locks
The old ones are just keeping em from falling out

one to go

 

Anthony, you are teaching the next generation the art of working with metal, these kids are doing some amazing work and you are to be commended, I wish we had teachers like yourself when I was in high school. HRP

 

Hillbilly leak check

couple taps and it passed

 

Neat trick. Is that light oil or water, and how much air pressure do you use?

 

Certainly less than what the valve spring rate is.

 

Water and whatever the psi is at the regulator
90-100
But no where near that in the port
Got a couple tiny bubbles on a couple exhaust valves. Flipped it over, set a piece of wood on top of the valve stem and banged it with a hammer.
no more bubbles

 

Two successes today. Froze bolt (short threaded screw) and a very rusty bearing race with no access from behind.

 

63 c10 door. The outside skin is good. The inner bottom isn’t.
Students rough cut the inner then cut the spot welds for the skin.
Then separated the hem joint. Those are tough when not removing the outer.

the inner will be final trimmed after the new bottoms are bought.
We’ll get that lip dollied amd the surface rust treated next.

 

Good for you Anthony!

 

Got the rear main seal swapped out. Super EZ.
Students primed thr 292 pieces

old beat c10 hood. Has bullet holes. Using it to demonstrate basic metal work.

young man was learning how to heat shrink.

 

110 pound young lady torquing 95 pounds