This is from the giveaway thread, I see the pins now have a black tint to them.

 

Yeah, thats from getting a massive amount of heat treat. Not to mention a few more steps that Ill keep secret These new pins are very very hard.

 

How hard is very hard? Like twice as hard as stock?

 

i know one of his secret ingredients i'll bet its that little blue pill that old men like

 

Well I couldnt go double because it would start to effect the pin that rides on it. Ive been in the machine business all my life but Im not an engineer so I hollared at a friend of mine thats a metallurgical engineer and we worked out the math for a couple of days. I didnt want to take any chances on a pin grooving again.

After hardness testing the two pins (idler pin and stock fuel pin) and other pins Ive collected that are from the aftermarket world he and I came up with what I have today. It took a while to find a heat treat facility that was willing to work with all the crazy techniques the engineer wanted but we finally found a place in Houston thats just knocking it out of the park. As far as hard........I cant give the specific number (being that its the EXACT number that the hardness needs to be to exibit perfect wear characteristics) buts its a few ticks harder than the stock pin. Not to mention these are stainless which is the only stainless pin offered on the market.......which doesnt corrode.

 

sounds like you have knocked it out of the park on getting your problem taken care of more people like you around we wouldnt have half the problems in this world hope it works out and you do good and thanks again for being a sponser

 

Now if I can just find some cool pictures of bacon Ill fit right in!

 

blahahahaha

 

Thanks Dennis!

 

Are all the pins heat treated now?