Damaged block from shipping!

[Rusty Nail]

Dude, that is awesome great news! Congratulations.

It's gonna weld up awesome and be a great block for you.
Totally radical!

 

[84 M1008]

I got a 700R4 transmission delivered with a fork hole punched through the side of the box. There was a slight scratch on the housing, but that was about it. Forklift guy missed the pallet by about 12 inches.

 

[da_raabi]

JB Weld it, grab a beer, and throw it together! If this engine ran, yours will too!

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[Rusty Nail]

Omfg beer can shims! I bet that was an OLD DUDE. Like repair your Model T bearings with a leather belt kind of OLD DUDE. Ever hear of that?

Great video!

 

[paulrowe]

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[paulrowe]

Well heres my repair. Not the prettiest welding around but its solid. I struggled with a bit of porosity, I'm guessing the casting has some nasty crap in it. I adjusted the heat and wire feed and was able to get it to calm down. Do you guys think she'll hold together? This stuff is tough, I can't even drill thru it with a carbide drill. So because of that I didn't want to fill the tranny bolt hole up with weld so its still had the crack on the top and bottom. Do you think this will cause it to begin cracking again. Any welders out there I could use some insight. Also I used Crown alloys 44-30 mig wire and the stuff worked pretty well considering. Its a high nickel wire with manganese in it. They say no preheat required. It didn't crack anywhere during welding so I guess there right.

 

[Snoots]

Looks pretty good to me. I'd plug that pinhole tho.

On another note: I'd pull that (those) steel water jacket plugs and install brass ones.

 

[paulrowe]

The pin hole above the thread you mean? Also here's a picture of the broken piece before I started.

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[73c20jim]

Hit it with a large rubber hammer.

 

[paulrowe]

Well I hit it with a rubber hammer and it stayed together. Should I be hitting it as hard as I can?

 

[Dougnsalem]

Hit it with a large rubber hammer.

Well I hit it with a rubber hammer and it stayed together. Should I be hitting it as hard as I can?

Rubber hammer? Hit it with your purse, Alice! Whack it a good one!


(J/k)

 

[rpcraft]

Hit it with a real hammer, a rubber hammer is no way to test welds. The porosity of the cast iron is always what you are going to fight and being an engine block there is no way to get rid of it without cooking the block but you might be able to get in there and cook it with a map torch and not have to spend a lot of time messing with resurfacing everything. If you encounter issues with it not holding the MAP torch might help clean it further once you get down to it. Looks pretty good so far though.

 

[73c20jim]

Hit it with a large rubber hammer.

In my defense, I only have a rubber hammer and a 10 pound sledge. I thought the sledge might have been excessive. lol.

 

[paulrowe]

I tend to agree! I hit it hard enough with a copper hammer and its solid. Now its on the stand ready to assemble.

 

[Rusty Nail]

Sure is a pretty truck in that picture..does SHE get the 400?