I was rebuilding a 4.2 liter jag 6 for a touring car project when I get a call from the machine shop that the head is warpers....
So what to do....I called every shop in the greater cleveland ohio area and no one could help (oven too small, don't have right plate, it's a jag...etc...etc...)
Head was not out too much (?). I could get a .018-.02 feeler under a straight edge in the middle of the head (block side)
So I ended up using a 12 ton press(not all 12t's!), some aluminum shims, steel box bars, cast iron plates...and kinda bent it over my knee with a little well positioned heat at the thick mid sections. A few groans and moans from the block.
Three times the charm with slow cooling while maintaining the pressure.
It is not perfect, but was able to get it back to a hair over .006!
The 'Bends', or have you ever 'pressed your head'???
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Re: The 'Bends', or have you ever 'pressed your head'???
hahaha excellent! good use of a 12t press
Re: The 'Bends', or have you ever 'pressed your head'???
So I guess you have one of those bent camshafts to fit that head?
Mats Strandberg
-Scuderia Rosso- Now burned to the ground...
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GTV 2000 -77 - Died in the fire.
155 V6 Sport -96 - Sold!
-Scuderia Rosso- Now burned to the ground...
-onemanracing.com-
-Strandberg.photography-
GTV 2000 -77 - Died in the fire.
155 V6 Sport -96 - Sold!
Re: The 'Bends', or have you ever 'pressed your head'???
Mats, its a 2 piece camshaft with a flex disc in the middle and on the drive end....better known as biscuts....
MR1 Zig (I made rate!)
Machinery Repairman USNR
Machinery Repairman USNR
Re: The 'Bends', or have you ever 'pressed your head'???
Mats, It was heated with close attention to the cam bores. They are in better alignment than the surface.