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Rotor and Drum Refinishing

The heart to any good brake job is a precision machined rotor or drum, parallelism and run out are all machined to OEM specs.

Rotor and drums services available
  • Car drums and rotors
  • Truck drums and rotors
  • Motorcycle and racing discs
  • Forklift and industrial
  • Bearing races removed and replaced
  • Wheel studs removed and replaced

Degreasing and Cleaning

Through cleaning of engine parts is essential for a quality finished product, we offer many different types of cleaning for all parts.

Cleaning services available
  • Thermo-Cleaning
  • Shot blasting
  • Spray cabinet pressure cleaning
  • Glass bead blasting
  • Final assembly washing

Block Machining

Block machining with the proper equipment makes a difference. We use only the state of the art equipment to machine your parts, so the job you expect, is done right the first time.

Block machining services available
  • Cylinder boring 1.2 to 8.0 in
  • Cylinder sleeving
  • Cylinder honing with Sunnen CV616 machinery
  • Deck plate honing
  • Small engine cylinders ( motor cycle, outboard motors, etc.) 2 and 4 stroke engines
  • Block Resurfacing and square decking
  • O-ringing
  • Align honing
  • 4 bolt main cap conversions
  • Camshaft bearing and freeze plug replacement

Cylinder Head Work

Correct valve seating in today’s engines is more important than ever before.

Heads are disassembled, checked for cracks, valve guides checked, valves and seats refaced, valve springs and related components checked for reuse, and reassembled.

Cylinder head services available
  • V/8, V6, Inline 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 cylinder heads
  • Single and dual OHC heads
  • Diesel truck and industrial
  • High Performance and Competition
  • Valve guide replacement
  • Hardened valve seat replacement
  • Machining spring pockets for larger springs
  • Machining for screw in rocker studs and push rod guide plates
  • Machine for positive valve seals
  • Bronze or cast iron valve guides
  • Magnetic and dye crack checking
  • Enlarging valve pockets for oversize valves
  • Porting and polishing
  • Head resurfacing

Rod and Piston Work

Connecting rod bearing housing bores are a very critical tolerance in an engine rebuild. Rod housing bores are corrected if out of specification and rod straightness checked on every job.

Connecting rod and piston services available
  • Resizing of housing bores
  • Magnetic particle inspecting
  • Stainless steel peening of rods
  • Installation of high strength rod bolts
  • Installation of bronze pin end bushings
  • Fly cutting of intake and exhaust pockets
  • Stroker clearancing rod
  • Removal and replacement of pistons on connecting rods
  • Piston deck and dome machining
  • Piston gas porting

Resurfacing

Today’s engines require surface finishes that are unattainable without the correct machinery. We use the new Rottler SF8A block and head resurfacer to obtain these critical RMS finishes.

Resurfacing services available
  • Cast iron cylinder heads and blocks
  • Aluminum heads and blocks
  • Intake manifolds
  • Exhaust manifolds
  • Diesel cylinder heads and blocks

Flywheel Grinding

High performance and standard flywheels take a lot of abuse, correct parallelism with the crankshaft flange is essential. Stepped flywheels have tolerances that must be maintained for proper pressure plate loads.

Flywheel grinding services available
  • Cast or nodular steel flywheels
  • Steel billet flywheels
  • Stepped or recessed flywheels
  • Ring gear replacement
  • Rebalancing

Fuel Injector Cleaning

Dirty fuel injectors can affect fuel economy, performance, and drivability of your vehicle. Off the car cleaning of these fuel injectors is the only way to be sure they are working properly. We can test on our flow bench for leaky injectors, flow rates, and spray patterns. Then ultrasonically clean them to like new performance.

Fuel injector services available
  • Mono point ( TBI)
  • Multi point (MPI)
  • K- Jetronic

Engine Assembly

Engine assembly is by far the most important part of a rebuild. We take the time to do it right! Blocks are final washed, rod and main clearances checked, piston to wall clearances checked, rings fitted to bores, camshafts degreed to proper valve timing specifications.

Engine assembly services
  • Partial or complete assembly
  • High performance
  • Street / Strip
  • Truck
  • Diesel
  • Industrial
  • Full competition

Miscellaneous Shop Work

Miscellaneous shop work available
  • Axle bearings pressed
  • Front hub bearings
  • CV joints and boot replacement
  • King pin fitting
  • Ball joint replacement
  • Power steering pulley R/R
  • Broken bolts removed
  • Heli-coils installed
  • Hydraulic hoses made or repaired

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We have many other shop services available

If you don’t see it, call or e-mail: machineshop@vansenusauto.com (219) 844-2900


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