Ducman82

Found this to go on the messed up oil ports of mine. Prong should help with sealing



Messed up holes. Got alum putty on the way i will post up as i go with this fix

BC

How did you acquire this nice piece?

Bill Ball

How is this going to seal? Locally, Jim Morton "rebuilt" the sealing surface, I believe on one of George Suennen's blocks but it might have been Dennis Kao's, with some kind of epoxy/metal repair material and it has held up well. I'll try to find out what he used and his method.

Ducman82

i hear using aluminum "epoxy" like putty is the way to go. clean and "build up" the surface, then use the green style loctite, i should be good. ..... i hope.

Jim Morton

No need for Bill to go "third party"... still lurking about here.

I have repaired a couple of this blocks using some tooling I made. The process was as follows:

I have a threaded insert that goes in to the depth of the damage. This was made from an old fitting. I then filled the damage with Devcon metalized epoxy, as used for tool and die repair. After the epoxy is cured, I used a modified spot face to reface the sealing ring surface. Check current Devcon offerings and make sure to select a suitable case metal repair material. As FYI, the Devcon stuff used is much harder than JB Weld when cured for more than 24 hours.

All the "tooling" was made or modified on a lathe. The spot face used was sourced from an industrial tool supply and had a pilot.

Glad to hear through Bill that these repairs have been holding up. Dealing with the thread failures was a "big bummer" when discovered.

Best wishes...

Bill Ball

Jim: Thanks!