J&L Automotive (609) 704‑8211

586 Tenth Street · Hammonton, NJ

Nothing’s too broken to be fixed.

Auto repair, boat work, a full machine shop and custom welding. One family-owned shop, J & L Auto and Marine.

  • 4.9 on Google · 11 reviews
  • Family owned
  • By appointment · Mon–Sat

Auto // Marine // Machine shop // Welding & fab // Trucks & equipment

The J&L Automotive and Metal Is Metal sign over the shop door, an American flag flying beside it
The shop dog on the fab floor, looking up at the camera
Two shops, one roof

Bring it in. We’ll figure it out.

J & L Auto and Marine is a family-owned repair and metal fabrication shop among the blueberry fields of Hammonton, in business for over 40 years.

Maintaining, repairing, transforming, designing, fabricating, polishing and creating whatever you can bring in or dream up. The promise is simple: give every job everything, because nothing is too broken to be fixed.

J&L Automotive

The auto side: repairs, engines and the machine shop.

Metal Is Metal, specializing in all metals

The fab side: welding and fabrication in every metal.

What the shop does

Five trades. One phone number.

A black Hummer up on a two-post lift outside the shop bays
Auto repair

Brakes to transmissions.

Scheduled maintenance and the not-so-scheduled repairs, on cars and trucks.

  • Brakes
  • Oil changes
  • Engine repair
  • Transmission
  • Diagnostics
  • Suspension
  • AC repair
Auto repair
Close-up of the cylinder bores of a V8 block in the machine shop
Automotive machine shop

Where other shops send their engines.

Boring, pressure checks, head and rod reconditioning, piston fitting and king pin honing for small to mid-size engines.

  • Boring
  • Pressure checks
  • Cylinder heads
  • Rods
  • Pistons
  • King pins
Machine shop
A welder crouched at a big steel fabrication, arc light glowing blue
Welding & fabrication · Metal Is Metal

Steel, stainless, aluminum.

Frames, racks, trailers, boat T-tops and one-off builds. Got an idea nobody else will build? Bring it in.

  • Frame repair
  • Aluminum rims
  • Ladder racks
  • Trailers
  • Rails & T-tops
  • Custom pieces
Welding & fabrication
A center console boat with a finished aluminum T-top and rod holders
Marine

Ready for the water.

Inboard motors and drives along with our custom pipe work.

  • Inboards & drives
  • Custom pipe work
  • T-tops
Marine repair
The grille of a Kenworth tractor parked in the yard
Trucks & equipment

From a lawnmower to a D9.

Commercial trucks, tractor trailers, tow-behind trailers, and farm and heavy equipment.

  • Commercial trucks
  • Trailers
  • Farm equipment
  • Heavy machinery
Trucks & equipment
A real job, start to finish

Rotted frame. Rebuilt, not replaced.

One truck frame, photographed in the shop as the work went: rust cut out, new steel welded in, primed, painted and back under the truck.

  1. A pickup’s rear frame on the shop floor, rusted through at the rails and crossmember

    01Rust through

    The rear frame as it came apart, eaten through at the rails and crossmember.

  2. Frame rails with new steel plates welded over the rotted sections

    02New steel in

    Rotted sections cut away, new plate boxed in and welded to the rails.

  3. The repaired frame in red primer on stands, with the rear brake assembly beside it

    03Primed

    The whole frame in primer before anything goes back together.

  4. The rebuilt frame painted gloss black and bolted back under the truck

    04Back under the truck

    Painted, bolted up and back under the pickup.

Swipe for the next step

The pressure test rig in the machine shop: a big gauge over a pegboard of fittings
Close-up of a reconditioned aluminum cylinder head, valve seats exposed
Cylinder heads and valves laid out on the machine shop bench
The machine shop

Where other shops send their engines.

The run-of-the-mill mechanic sends the complicated engine work out. This is where it comes.

  1. 01BoringCylinders bored to size
  2. 02Pressure checksHeads and blocks tested before they go back in
  3. 03Cylinder head reconditioning
  4. 04Rod reconditioning & piston fitting
  5. 05King pin bushing honing

In the shop’s own words

It doesn’t matter what it is, we can fix it because Metal is Metal.

Joe Bondisky // Metal Is Metal

Google reviews

Straight from the customers.

4.9★★★★★11 reviews on Google
★★★★★

J&L is my go to, Joe and his team are amazing people who genuinely care about their customers. You won’t get better service, better quality auto work, or better welding done ANYWHERE. Many mechanics have attempted to rip me off, talk down to me, ask where “my man is”, or straight up ignore me (hmm I wonder why) but I’ve never felt treated unfairly by anyone here. If I don’t know something, it’s ex…

Rachel SmithGoogle review
★★★★★

Joe is a leader amongst a group of four star top shelf quality mechanics..Any challenge I had..they came up with a remedy. an didn’t stop till I was completely happy..my car an my family car now can go along way..feeling safe..n secure..from wiper blades to belts ..to overhaul they got it done sooner n under budget then they had originally quoted...wait guys my son gets his car this year..you have…

Dan VolekGoogle review
★★★★

Picked up the things that I needed to be cleaned and welded together. Great work. Can’t see where it was repaired. Quality work reasonable time and affordable rates.

Minister LloydGoogle review

Real Google reviews, word for word. Read them all on Google.

Marine

A worry-free boating season.

Inboards and drives and custom pipe work, plus aluminum T-tops and rails bent and welded in the fab shop.

Marine repair
Trucks & equipment

Time down is money spent.

When the machine is how you make a living, the job keeps moving. Trucks, trailers, tractors and heavy iron.

Trucks & equipment
From the shop floor

No stock photos. Just the shop.

Timing gears and cylinder heads on the bench
Timing gears and heads on the bench
Aluminum rack frames going together on stands in the fab shop
Aluminum frames on stands in the fab shop
A custom black tank trailer with diamond-plate steps, built in the shop
A custom tank trailer, built here
An aluminum swordfish grille guard on the front of a Ford pickup
The aluminum swordfish grille guard
A steel archway with scrollwork, standing in the yard
A steel archway out back
A scrap-metal robot sculpture standing by the shop fence
The scrap-metal robot by the fence
Chrome wheels mounted high on the wall of the shop office
The office wall
The shop’s white service truck with its polished aluminum ladder rack, lettered for welding, fabrication and repairs
The service truck and its aluminum rack
The J&L Automotive and Metal Is Metal road sign pointing to 586 Tenth Street, open fields behind it
Visit the shop

586 Tenth Street, Hammonton.

Among the blueberry fields, halfway between Philly and the shore.

Monday – Friday
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Sunday
Closed

All services by appointment. Call first so the shop can plan your job: (609) 704‑8211.

Close to Folsom, Elwood, Egg Harbor City, Mullica, Buena, Winslow, Waterford and Vineland.

Questions

Straight answers.

Anything else? Call (609) 704‑8211.

Do I need an appointment?

Yes. All services are by appointment, so call first: (609) 704‑8211. Tell the shop what it is and what it’s doing.

Do you work on boats?

Yes. Inboard motors and drives along with custom pipe work, on boats that can be brought to the shop. Aluminum T-tops and rails come out of the fab shop.

Can you weld aluminum and stainless?

Yes: steel, stainless and aluminum. Customers bring in cracked aluminum rims, rotted frames, racks, rails and one-off pieces.

Do other shops send you machine work?

They do. The machine shop handles boring, pressure checks, cylinder head and rod reconditioning, piston fitting and king pin bushing honing on small to mid-size engines.

Do you fix lawn and farm equipment?

Yes. Riding mowers, tractors, trailers and heavy equipment: anything from a lawnmower to a D9 Cat.

How much will it cost?

Every job is different. Call (609) 704‑8211 or send the form with what you’ve got, and you’ll get a straight answer.

Tell us what you’ve got

A car, a boat, an engine or an idea. Send the details and the shop will call you back.

What’s it for?
Contact

Call, send it, or come by.

All services are by appointment, so a call is the quickest way in.

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