I've done several searches on the oil spray jets and their installation. I had these jets installed by a machine shop in the area and two jets fell out in about 10000 miles. I don't want to go into the details of what's going on with the shop. It is being handled. In the mean time I am fixing my motor. The case is a mag 1R case from a '69 E motor.
How would you handle peening these jets in? You can see what the machine shop tried to do. They gave it one shot where the counterbore in the case is even with the squirter.
Obviously, this didn't work so well. I can't make it look like factory because my case doesn't have the boss for the squirter. It looks like the factory boss was peened in with a tool. Since I don't have the boss I couldn't do that even if I made a tool since the case web isn't flat.
Thank you to Henry Schmidt of Supertech for posting that photo.
The good news is I'm not going to rely on peening 100% to keep them in. I will also be holding them in with loctite sleeve retainer and primer as recommended in the factory bulletin. I know some machine shops don't even peen them these days relying only on the loctite. I'm not convinced there isn't some value to a mechanical method as a backup. The problem is I'm afraid I'm just going to bust off a chunk of the mag over top the squirter. I mean it's mag. It doesn't bend so good. Do you think I could use a punch with a flat tip in 2 or 3 places about 0.100" away from the hole just to close the top of the hole a bit to tighten the fit?
Any other suggestions are certainly welcome.
Thanks for your help.
Kelly