Block Align Honing:
Process of precision honing main bearing bores to correct misalignment and out of roundness. Main bearings may spin in their bores. This damage may also be corrected by align honing.

Block Decking:
Block decking restores trueness and gives the proper surface finish for maximum gasket sealing and therefore extending head gasket life.

Boring and Honing:
Process which gives a new cylinder surface to facilitate maximum piston and ring life. Round piston rings sealing in round cylinder bores produce maximum life and power.

Connecting Rod Reconditioning:
Machining returns rods to correct bearing bore size, concentricity, straightness, and parallelism. Round connecting rod bores produce round bearings mated to a round crankshaft journal resulting in maximum component life.

Crank Grinding: Crankshafts that have suffered damage at the hands of spun bearings, contaminated oil, or broken engine parts, must have the journals ground undersize and fitted with properly sized bearings. Severely damaged crankshafts may be repaired by welding.

Crank Polishing:
Cranks in good condition can sometimes be cleaned, miked, and polished. Polishing removes high spots that may damage new bearings.

Head Reconditioning:
Disassembly, cleaning, and inspection. Valves and seats may need ground. Head straightness is checked. Valve guides and valve stems are inspected for wear. Heads may be magnafluxed, crak chek'd(tm), or pressure checked. Severely worn seats are machined and replaced.

Note: Valve guide wear induces early valve seat failure. Valve guides direct the valve back to its seat in a manner that spreads the impact load evenly. Worn valve guides cause the valve to strike the seat unevenly promoting wear. Severely worn seats may be repaired with an steel insert.

Hot Tanking:
Process by which iron blocks, heads, and miscellaneous parts are dipped in a caustic solution to break down sludge, grease, oil and carbon. We prefer this process as it does not thermally stress components as do some thermal cleaning operations.