I want to mill a flywheel housing that is 19" wide. Shops around here can only handle heads that are 14" wide maximum. I can ship the housing anywhere that has the right equipment. Can you recommend anyone?
Here is one of my friends CNC mills with a 32 Ford frame stored on the table. I'll bet he could mill your bellhousing. But you are to far away. There are some good things about living in California.
One of my coworkers has his hands(family business) in a machineshop in Missouri, their bread and butter is oil pipeline stuff, but he's done a lot of 1-off tractor pulling stuff including random brand custom cylinder heads. Depending on what you want he'd be the guy to talk to
I shortened a factory aluminum bellhousing on a lathe. Cutting made a deafening screeching noise, but did ok.
Thanks for the replies. I was having problems cracking flexplates. I just wanted to make sure the flywheel housing is not warped. I think it's an unlikely cause, but am desperate to eliminate possible problems.
Where are you in the state. Which face do you want milled engine block I am assuming. Are you calling a bell housing a fly wheel housing? Before it got chucked up and cut I would make u sure that it needed cutting. Mill is no necessary for that. That said I could get it done here no problem, either sneak it into my old place of employ or take it to the tractor pull shop up the road here a bit and have them face it if it needs it.
I'll do just that. My son is in daycare right by Richard's shop. The door to his shop was hanging open the other day, and I almost stopped. I should have, and I will.
If you want to ship it to Ohio my friend has a Bullard that will do that. He just squared up a transmission case for my buddy. Call me at 440 231 2318 Bert
where i used to work had a 36" Blanchard , that would be ideal for that. i certainly found a lot of uses for it
Before machining anything I'd mount a dial indicator on the crank and sweep the flywheel housing's mounting face and the bore. It might take require making an angle iron adapter or something.