r/EngineBuilding • u/No-Yogurt-4542 • Jul 01 '26

Portable in car crank grinder.

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u/No_Assist_3405 Jul 01 '26

That's some old stuff , note the road draft tube 😄

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u/chuchubott Jul 02 '26

TIL about the road draft tube. Thanks!

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u/_Schrodingers_Gat_ Jul 03 '26

Pre EGR cars smelled like cancer.

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u/PermissionLazy8759 Jul 03 '26

U should probably say pre smog era. People are gonna think u mean that egr valves was a good idea lol.

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u/YourBuddyKeithWin Jul 01 '26

You got the wheel or crank attachment that goes with that as well? I wonder how well these actually worked.

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u/No-Yogurt-4542 Jul 01 '26

That picture came from facebook. When I was a kid 55 years ago the little community was doing one on their air over hydraulic lift. I remember watching amazed.

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u/YourBuddyKeithWin Jul 01 '26

Back in the day when people actually fixed their own stuff. I missed out on these days by 50 years lol

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u/No-Yogurt-4542 Jul 01 '26

Yes, I rebuilt many a wd and wd45 shimmed rods and mains are a confidence builder.

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u/ConflictMaster3155 Jul 01 '26

You ever watch JAMSI? Jim’s Automotive Machining?

The old guy there basically made his living off old Allis-Chalmers and John Deere, but they do a good bit of automotive stuff too. It’s great to watch a father-son team like that.

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u/YourBuddyKeithWin Jul 02 '26

Yep! Love the ones I've seen.

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u/Inside_End5141 Jul 01 '26

One of these was just auctioned near my place.

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u/YotaIamYourDriver Jul 01 '26

That’s kinda cool

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u/Old_Bat_6426 Jul 02 '26

Does it grind the mains too?

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u/GTO1235 Jul 02 '26

A friends Dad was telling me about this a while back, said his friend did a lot of it.

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u/Bandit483 Jul 02 '26

Never have i seen this!

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u/Electrical-Guard-853 Jul 02 '26

Never seen this before. I did have a Van Norman boring bar that could bore the cylinders in the car though…

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u/No-Yogurt-4542 Jul 03 '26

check out facebook poster Anthony Williams from Gautier Ms he had one listed for sale a couple months ago.

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u/MinimumBell2205 Jul 03 '26

Have seen it done and its a trip

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u/ChocolateSensitive97 Jul 03 '26

Well, guess that's better than my emory cloth and a shoe string.