It's probably going to be quite a few parts like we did the last time but follow along and we're going to get her done. Got my parts back from the vapor blaster and we decided we're not going to leave you hanging, we're going to put this motor back together. We'll go ahead and let these guys do what they do here and we'll get the rest of these parts cleaned up and then we'll go ahead and show you the head when it's done.
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If you get a spot on there, you can spray a little brake clean, a little compressed air and it comes right off.Īlong with replacing a lot of fasteners, I'm like if I don't want to reuse some rusty cylinder based nuts I'm going to put new fasteners and we'll see all that as we move along through our video series of tear down and rebuild on our 650 Triumph engine. With vapor blast, you're going to have a really durable, nice looking satin finish that is pretty much repels anything like that. It can open up the pores on the aluminum and if you get any gas or oil or anything spills say when you're tickling your cards and spills on the back end of the engine, the gas tends to stain it. I don't recommend sandblasting or glass bead blasting aluminum parts because it tends to imbed itself. As Ken explained, it's very kind to the metal. All this discoloration, all this stuff is going to come off here with this vapor blast process. I washed this head probably two and three times before we came here today and you can plainly see that it still has a kind of a dingy, not so desirable finish on it. If you're going to go through all the trouble to completely disassemble your entire engine and replace all the bearings, you want your motor to look like it's rebuilt. I just haven't found any way to get these parts as clean as this process. We'll show you the cylinder head before we get it blasted up and then we'll show it to you after. Well, after seeing how that rocker box came out, you can see why I like this process so well. It'll stay in there and once it's oils, with oils or gases, it's virtually you can't clean it, it just will not clean. It's much, much better than using a dry media where the dry media will impregnate the metal.
When it cleans it, when the media hits and the water hits at the same time, it will clean and flush the pores of the metal. Vapor blasting does not take away from the metals, it just conditions it and cleans it. It's not using a lot of friction, therefore, you're getting a cleaner part. Basically, what it does is at that point, when it hits the part, it cleans it and conditions it. When you're blasting the part, basically, what's happening is the media created with the water is going through the hose, coming out the nozzle and hitting your part that you're having cleaned. It's pressurized, it goes through the hose through compressed air and then you put the part in, the parts' sitting in there and then you can blast it. There's a pump in there that agitates the water, that creates like a constant slurry. You wanted to know something about the vapor blasting on the process, how it works? It's a vixen cabinet basically what it is is it's a media that is inside of the cabinet along with water. I present Ace Powder Coating vapor blasting, sandblasting and powder coating. We're going to get the crankcase cylinder head rocker boxes in the tranny part all cleaned up, get ready for reassembling. My friend Ed Bannerman shop and he's got the vapor blaster here. Here we are at ACE Powder Coating in Green, Ohio.
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We spend a lot of time and effort creating motorcycle how-to videos, product reviews and event coverage for your enjoyment, please let us know what you think. You can check out the Triumph 650 Motorcycle Engine Disassembly & Rebuild - Part 8 to continue following along!Ĭheck out the Lowbrow Customs YouTube channel to check out all of our videos. Also shows you an easy trick to check if your cam bushings need replaced or not. After all the parts are vapor blasted Todd goes back to his garage to start the rebuilding process to his Triumph 650 motor, installing all of the bearings that go in each side of the case. Ken at Ace Powder Coating also explains how the process of vapor blasting works and how its way better cleaning solution for your motor parts. Todd takes a field trip to Ace Powder Coating to get his cases, transmission cover, head and rocker boxes vapor blasted. Triumph motorcycle engine and rebuilds it. This is the seventh part (check out part six here) in our extremely popular video series in which Todd Muller, Head Motorcycle Tech here at Lowbrow Customs, disassembles a unit 650 c.c.
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