The Big Move + Parting

Everything from yesterday and a few other pieces laying around were all degreased and blasted today.  There were some hammer + punch marks, and a little mushrooming on the plain shafts so the ends of all of them were cleaned up and polished on the lathe.  Everything turned out really nice.  I have a parts diagram with part numbers ready to label them and put them up tomorrow morning.  

Someone is bringing a 414 that needs a lot of work tomorrow after lunch so it looks like I get a break from parting for a little while.  Maybe Sat will be a good steam cleaning day for the 414 coming in and other parts that need it.  

 

The last round is bagged, tagged and put away.   The bench is cleared and ready to do a lot of work on a 414 that arrived this afternoon so the parting will slow for a little bit.  I could use the break from all of this stuck together parting type stuff...  

Steam cleaned another shelf cart of parts yesterday.  Some parts like hubs, pulleys, front end pins and maybe the transmission case will get blasted and some will just get put on the pallet racks with other like parts.  

 

Most of the parts in the last pic were just put up with other like parts, the only ones blasted were what's in the pics below.  2 of the hubs had spent time hitting the rearend so they got cleaned up on the lathe.  Hubs were the #1 seller last month so I try to keep a lot of them ready.  All of the parts blasted today are super nice and ready to go.  

 

I have some nice cleaned up as well as NOS cases for automatics and 8 speeds but no 4 speeds so I decided to clean up the rough one I took apart a long time ago.  This is just another testament of how tough the Horses are.  The case cleaned up nice and every bearing and shift fork hole are as smooth as glass, of course doing them with aluminum shot helps a lot.  

Just one more step in having every almost Wheel Horse part made in stock and ready to go.  

Also started keeping more original Wheel Horse 7473 belts in stock for peeps that want original Made in USA belts.