8ba Cylinder sleeves

[Walt Dupont--Me.]

Originally Posted by Unshined2

Rookie question here.... can a person pull the sleeves and resleeve them. Or do you just bore out until the sleeve is gone?? As an insurance policy could you pull the sleeves and inspect the block for major problems and resleeve. Or is it too cost prohibitive?

The 40-41-42 engines had steel, what we call tin can sleeves, They are .040 wall. You can press those sleeves out and press in new ones if you can find any. Engines with cast repair sleeves are usually 1/8 or 3/32 wall and are pressed in pretty hard. I have bored them out by boring them to an eag shell thick and peeled them out. If the wall checks out with a dial bore guage you should be able to press in a new repair sleeve. I usually put a little lock tite on the wall before pressing in new sleeve. I also leave a step on the bottom of the bore for the sleeve set on. Walt