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Originally Posted by BoxxerSix
snip...You'd never catch me doing such a thing and for good reason. You can easily break off the case, and it'll cost you alot more for the TIG + machine repairs than the time spent in slowly tapping the case apart the old way.
There are key areas where you can drive against one side of the case with a wood dowel to get the parting line open...snip
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That was my thread about case separation that Brett referenced earlier. I can tell you that my case was
never going to separate by slowly tapping. Tapping? Hell no, I beat the bejeezus out of my case around the "4 corners" with a wood dowel for at least an hour with no separation of the parting line.
If you bill by the hour and were doing my rebuild using "the old way" for case separation, it would have been the most expensive engine build of all time.
If you bill a flat fee and were doing my rebuild using "the old way" for case separation, it would have been the biggest negative profit engine build of all time.
Brett, the sealant you were dealing with looks like the same stuff I had. Getting the residue off of the mating surface is quite the chore as well...good luck on your rebuild.