Re: Dowel pins-warning

["Owen" <renarac@domain.elided>]

Tacoma Screw Products.

They have stores in Tacoma, Seattle(I think) and Bremerton.

Call first with the dimensions, but if anyone has them, they do. 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allan Weidenheimer <allanw@domain.elided>
To: IHC Digest Post <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 7:33 PM
Subject: Dowel pins-warning


> Anyone out there tearing an engine down, here is some
> advice:
> Those hollow dowel pins for aligning the heads, and the
> block to the transmission, don't destroy/mutilate them!
> I recently just bent some up when I removed them prior
> to delivering the 360 AMC block I am working on to the
> machine shop.  I didn't ask the machine shop guys about 
> them, but, I tried to get them at NAPA, and another 
> hardcore auto parts store, and they knew what I was talking 
> about, but had no idea where to get them.  I have seen
> small block Chevy pins in the Summit and Jeg's catalogs,
> but the AMC ones, and probably the IHC ones, are a different
> size.  I ended up flattening my rusted and bent originals out,
> and re-rolling them around a 1/2" bolt so I could re-use them.
> 
> If anyone knows of a good source for these, I'm interested
> in hearing about it.
> 
> Allan Weidenheimer
> 72 1210 Pickup
>