My Pete rebuild

[Rawze]

(07-15-2018 )pearce trucking Wrote:  ...
I'm starting mine and will be using the Monaco tool rawze shows in his videos. I'm a perfectionist too. I think your numbers are probably good enough. But if I had those same numbers, I'd probably be trying to get them exact too. See what others say though. I dunno for sure.
Oh btw, did I read correctly that you had .002 taken off the deck?

How I get mine to high precision is with a very reliable and consistent mechanical depth gauge + lots of checking along the way. My counter-bore tool actually cuts an error of 0.0004" to one side when it is bolted and torqued evenly. What I do is cut progressively towards the target depth and back off the bolts on the side that cuts the deepest slightly + tighten the side that is cutting shy a bit. I keep doing this until I get it dead even before making the final cut. - I also only ever go 0.001" cuts with the tool and half that for the last 2 cuts to clean it up.

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Here is a nice tool for this job if someone wanted to go all out with it. ...
https://amzn.to/2J9uKNn

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Here is what I actually use though, simply because it has never failed me ...
https://amzn.to/2GS13xl
+ a base attachment ...
https://amzn.to/2LnDCS4

- If you go this way, when you attach the depth gauge adapter, loc-tite it + tighten it to maximum it can withstand, have it lapped in correctly. Never - ever remove it again.
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