The Ford Barn - View Single Post - rebuilt '33 21 stud...a cherry or a lemon

Bored&Stroked · 04-30-2016, 08:59 AM

Are all cylinders sleeved - or just one of them? I don't have any problems with a few sleeves - but I do not like engines where all cylinders have been sleeved (with thick-wall sleeves - not the Ford 'tin-can' ones). When you have 8 thick-wall sleeves, too much of the internal block support structure has been removed - it weakens the block too much and the deck doesn't have the support that it used to have.

04-30-2016, 08:59 AM	#12
Bored&Stroked Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 5,064	Re: rebuilt '33 21 stud...a cherry or a lemon Are all cylinders sleeved - or just one of them? I don't have any problems with a few sleeves - but I do not like engines where all cylinders have been sleeved (with thick-wall sleeves - not the Ford 'tin-can' ones). When you have 8 thick-wall sleeves, too much of the internal block support structure has been removed - it weakens the block too much and the deck doesn't have the support that it used to have.