Absolutely, I just drop everything off with Stan and he lets me know exactly what we'll need to wrap up the engine builds! I'm sure he could tackle anything 💪
Every town needs a shop like that. I worry about the trade in this culture of just buying something new instead of rebuilding. Thanks for the tour and the videos.
When guys like Stan pass, the knowledge lost is tremendous. We are losing more knowledge by the day with the loss of these folks. The machines as well, once gone, are unfortunately gone. It's the last area of a golden age of mechanics and trades, and unfortunately, the local machine shop is disappearing. Thanks for showing a new generation the incredible fun and vital work of these machine artists. If I were I 20 with decent math skills, I'd be looking into training with a man like this and taking what the training process is to get going.
The machinist trade is a dying art. To those young people wanting to wright their own ticket Get into the machinist trade. There is a demand because there is not many of these guys left.
And in most case they would be happy to teach the next generation but there are very few ready to step up and learn as they are distracted by more modern stuff.
The dying part of the trade is the manual part, CNC has taken over, programmers are in demand but you can teach a novice to push buttons because there is usually a set-up guy.
That guy has a million bucks worth of knowledge in his head.You should spend a day just watching him work, It gives a whole new meaning to Rebuilding an engine.
That took me back to my early years of working in a automotive machine shop. I have ran all those machines in that shop as the shop I worked in had the exact machines but I never learned the crank grinder. That flywheel surfacing machine if ran wet gets super nasty. Looks like a clean shop to work in.
Really enjoyed this Video,especially the Shop Tour !Thank Stan for the Tour ,as a retired machinist I really enjoyed it!Thanks JR for taking the time to share,am looking forward to the 420 Crawler rebuild!
Great tour of the machine shop! My father worked in a very similar machine shop for 37 years rebuilding engines! He was well respected in his field and I remember many calls in the evenings and on the weekends of people calling him for advise.
What a cool guy Stan is, and practising a true dying art, the machine trade in my area is all gone in my younger days a old chap had a machine shop and built me a operated engine and head he’s past now but his work lives on and that engine is still pulling strong 20 years later
Another great video JR. You post some interesting stuff. Very cool visit to this guy’s shop. Really strange about that last set of pistons. Too small! A mystery. And you’re using the Rampage as a shop truck. Nice!
It will be a sad day when he shuts the doors, Here in Manitoba I used to drive 2 hours each way to a machine shop I trusted to do my customer motor work on tractors and trucks, He's been closed 3 years this Christmas. Unluckily i've now got a Perkins motor needs work and having a hard time finding a shop anybody local will recommend, they'd trust for me to put my name on when I reassemble that motor. I'm going to get blamed for the machine shop screw up's, and I've heard of and seen a few from these shops. Thats why I went further away to my old guys by recommendation. is that the correct block for that machine the bore seems way out even with a sleeve, maybe Deere had a smaller bore motor in something else 2 cylinder ?. Thanks to the owner and you for sharing the shop, I wish I could use that kind of stuff myself often enough to pay for it. New machines with crate motor replacement parts has kinda killed most of that work in lots of area's. The older generation restorers that used those and the proper make it Muffler/ rad shop guys are dead or dyeing off to sadly. The next generations are more interested in video games or don't have the money for these fun projects like equipment restoration or automotive stuff. Take care.
I haven't watched the whole video, yet, but compared to both sets of your hands, and the observed size, relative to the bolt holes and outside dimensions of the block, the bore, the pistons, and the length of the inside diameter mic, when set and locked, look like every bit of 4 inches. Did he make a mistake, reading, or zeroing the mic? It happens to the best of us. I would bet it got figured out, pretty soon.
Always enjoy a shop tour even though I've spent time in one in my youth. Sometimes think maybe I should have learned that trade rather than being a code monkey. But at 50 it's probably too late to even take it up as a hobby.
You'd be a fool not to put new sleeves into the engine. Didn't you say you wanted to keep that thing forever? At some point you'll need to rebuild it again and with so little meat left on the bone you might not be able to as your machinist of choice likely will no longer be around. Gotta think longterm, not short term.
It's not sleeved, we took a knife and scratched at the ring on the surface that looked like the sleeve. Turns out it's just carbon build up from the head gasket. The carbon was so deep and perfect that we all thought it was a sleeve (even though the specs show it's not a sleeved engine). Still a bit confused about the bore size as well. 🍻
Hopefully we'll have a final number this week along with the recommendations, Jared measured it and thought it was already .050 over! You know I'll keep you updated 🍻
So I don't know if it's possible. I don't think there were many other uprights other than the ones mentioned in the comments, should know for sure sometime this week! 🤙
I'm following each John Deer video. Can't wait to see it go back together. I hope your plans are a restore and paint it like it rolled of the factory floor. Don't do like Mustie1 and just get it running, put some lipstick on that pig and call it done. That would be a waste for a piece of history.
Yup I know ! If I were 30 years younger I would jump at the chance ! It’s hard to get some kids to realize there is art in working with your hands like that and soon there will not be anyone around ( or very few ) to fix and repair the vintage machines ! That would be a sad day !
i think he just read it wrong, you can see they are bigger than 3 inches i think he meant to say 4 inches maybe, but you aint gonna get 4 inch pistons in a 3 inch hole fow dam shure
It is. I measured with a bore gauge before he took it to Stan and I measured 4.3”. Easy mistake. Stan is an awesome machinist though! He’ll get it figured out!
