Re: WA area owners help needed.


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Posted by David Sherman on Monday, December 20, 2004 at 2:05PM :

In Reply to: WA area owners help needed. posted by Rick on Monday, December 20, 2004 at 12:30PM :

If all he wants is a good machine shop, S&M on Broadway has done alright for me. What they've done has been on-time, reasonably priced, and looked good. Never had him rebuild an whole engine for me, though. There's a machine shop at about Grand and Wall, just across the alley from Everett Auto Parts / NAPA that's been there forever and seems to always have lots of work. Can't remember the name off hand. They're more into full rebuilds rather than valve grinds and manifold milling and such.

But from skimming the PWA post, something else is seriously wrong if he spent $5K on a 230 rebuild and it doesn't run. He admits he doesn't know anything about mechanics and so he's left with speculating about who cheated him or was incompetent. For all I know it could be something as simple as the distributor in wrong or the timing chain on the wrong tooth or something. It could really be anything. It also sounds like he's had lots of people speculating, but maybe no regular old-time competent mechanic spend any time figuring it out.

If a flathead doesn't run at all, it's not a matter of poor machine work. It should run, more or less, if the majority of cylinders have some degree of compression, some sort of combustible fluid is being dribbled into the intake manifold, and the spark plugs are firing. I notice the guy's a software engineer, and being an engineer myself, I wonder if he's looking at the trickiest and most expensive possibilities first, and ignoring the basic stuff -- fuel, spark, and timing.



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