This rare engine has ‘all been done’. But WHY oh why would they do this?

Rare Alvis engine in for cylinder liners, but what we found was a bad bit of engineering. Can we rescue it? We also show how to set valve clearances without fitting valve springs on the Jaguar e type cylinder head

[pendopendo]

The information you impart to us plebs about YOUR trade is astonishing to me, love it, faults and all.

[wymple]

It amazes me that you can find any semblance of organization in a shop that size with the amount of work you have going on. That's good as it means your services are in high demand. There will be good reason for that.

[dexterhawkins]

When working in a mechanical and electrical repair shop we photographed every step of disassembly and rebuild. This settled any arguments ( claims ) about our workmanship. We used cheap digital cameras and started with the job card, also helped when a different person rebuilt the equipment some months later. This process may help you in any future workmanship disputes.

[rosskeen]

I'd like to see a better partition between the milling machine and the "clean area"

[ambydaly]

When I worked at Vintins (different name now) at Bury St. Edmunds in the early 1970s they used to have steel mesh screens between each Milling machine in a line of machines. This to prevent any metal flying off the table and hitting the adjacent operators. Also once a month they cleaned the machine shop floor to a white finish. You could eat your dinner off the floor it was so clean. If you were on a dirty machining job the labourer had authority to stop you every hour to clean your machine area. Reason being they manufactured cameras and TV studio equipment.

[noelhalton]

Enjoy the channel, reminds me of my younger years. How clean an area is not as important as how clean the assembly is. Many years ago I built a Triumph Tr6 engine in a damp, one car rented lock up. Pulled the engine, disasembled it. Took it for machining and balance to my local engineering shop. Crank grind new bearings, rebore and pistons, head and block surfaced. I did the valve work. The reasembly was clean not because the garage was clean, it wasn't. Ran it in by driving to the South of France and back, it never missed a beat, the madness of youth. Maybe a naive suggestion, how about a Henry type vacuum?

[kimkeam]

Great improvement with the shop layout! Can I suggest making with tape/ paint a border line for each area so your walkways remain clear for you and the trolleys have safe access at all times. It’s really easy to encroach into them without a reference. At the airport all around the terminal points you’ll notice the painted areas for tugs, trolleys and equipment to prevent any safety incidents.

[davidcoyle]

Plasterboard might not last to long Lee? perhaps some plywood with a few hooks for goggles, dust pan, brush and a perhaps a first aid kit? Workshop actually looks larger time well spent.

[theshed]

Instead of racking, consider mobile trolley's so you can wheel the jobs around as a job kit. That way everything stays together for that job and can be moved to where you want it.

[abzzeus]

Two things to get large sheet of perspex on top of that plasterboard as additional swarf protection and a large wet 'n' dry vac to pick swarf up?

[TamTran-vwzm]

I love the good natured banter among you workers. Seems like a pleasurable place to work.

[topquark]

I'm new to your channel and I'm absolutely loving it! Fair play to you, you are a 'natural' in front of the camera.

[MrMightyytau]

The assembly area should be totally isolated in a sealed seperate room, from the machining Area

[williamneedham]

Hi Lee what you need for Paul is one of those dustpan/ brush combos like they have in theme parks, you can sweep swarf and crap up without bending down 😁 we've some in our workshop and they're a godsend 👍

[davidpalk]

Got a third third liner in all six cylinders of a six litre DV66B once. It became the DV66B/18LNR/4.2L on the work docket! That was to reduce capacity to meet a lower tax bracket for Moldovan mountain road regs with narrowed-axle rigs. Strange job, granted. Special, even... As long as the previous ones don't move, buckle or tear it's fine, just push each one in chilled and stack 'em up like cardboard coffee cups. Lump then went over 300k without a hitch and came back for a crack from a core plug seat. Mended that and back to Chisinau it went for many more years of quarry plodding. Moldovan agent was named Kermit - yes really! Lovely, lovely guy. Dead now at fifty. We got away with plenty of "bodgeneering" on unstressed, low revving, torquey PSV and truck diesels for the "sick-bucket" central and southern European export market back in the good old days before the Brexit headscratch sucked a .030 feeler leaf straight into the induction port of our foreign trade. Domestic trade picked up to cover it when a local rival went for his final dull-bronze collet, thankfully. More than 3000 builds and major repairs at our shady shed so far, mostly for happy contract regulars, but no warranty claims or engine thefts (WTF???) ever. Wii-nnnner!!! Oh, and why not properly cage up that filthy old mill? Floor all around it looks like Brighton beach on a frosty morning! Doesn't it stick all in the mats on the Lambo? I'd have kept that well crusty unit slarked off the strap, even for bread and butter big oil burner work in your not-so-clean but probably just-about-clean-enough clean area adjacent. Hey, if I'm having a YB head job done I want C-L-E-A-N as a B-E-A-N, ya know what I mean? As well as the all too obvious swarf puffing issues, it could very well lob a grenade at one of your lads' skulls. Kerack-clang-ouch! That wouldn't be too clastie now, would it? Right then, tea break over, and I'm back to the Axminster linisher again with a fresh coarse belt on it.

[andrewwasson]

I’m a recent subscriber and I really do like this channel. I’ve been an automotive enthusiast since my earliest recollections and I’ve built a few engines reasonably well but I learn something new every time I watch a video. I’ve got a couple of motorcycle engines to build and I can’t wait to put my evolving knowledge to work.

[doncodman]

Hi Lee. Similar thoughts as others .... get a barrier either side of the mill m/c . To protect guys, working close, from shrapnel if a tool breaks and to stop ANY debris flying that way . Hopefully a head would not travel too far. Do you use airlines at all on the mill or anywhere because miniscule particules will travel to your assembly area. I would suggest possibly enclosing sideways and from above your final assembly area. Crap can fall from the rafters.
Keep doing the good work. Regards Don.

[tonytasker]

You need a secretary to answer that bloody phone. 🤣

[dogpaw]

welding cast iron, now there's an art.

[derekhobbs]

Every work station had dust pan, broom and a bin at my old work. Saves time.