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SDE

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A Napa machine shop said they would use the lock and stitch method and depending on the length it would be between 3 and 4 hundred. Any advice on what I should do here?
Thank you
SDE
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A good Farmall head should be about that price. But the method is very recommended. and will be permanent. Jim
 
You might want to do at least some of the work yourself. You can drill in the pins and maybe have the shop do the final machining. The folks at LokN'Stitch are very helpful in explaining things.
Lok N Stitch
 
I'm not sure what the Lock and Stitch method entails. We first learned about repairing a defective block when the G JD we had blew out a sand hole in one cylinder.

We took the block to a machinist that did that kind of work back in the early 50's. He had been a prisoner of war in Germany and volunteered to do work that did not contribute to the war effort. He was assigned to sweep the floors in a factory that made the alloy plugs that the Germans were using to repair cracked blocks and heads.

After the war, he started his machine shop and imported the plugs from the same factory in Germany where he had worked. That kind of work kept 2 men busy most of the time in his machine shop.

BTW, That repair in the G is still holding almost 65 years since it was done.
 
I had looked at the lock and stitch method. I even clicked on the catalog feature, but there weren't any prices. The NAPA guy said that by time I bought the pins and equipment, I would have almost that much into it. I will have to look up the phone # and talk to them.
Thank you
SDE
 
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