Cyl Sleeves

Good luck,
Dan

The difference being the "paint thinner" is a better price. Lot better price and available all over town.

• Check out the MSDS.

Just mu $.02 worth.

Dan

When I replaced the sleeves on my 8n back in January, I found plenty of screwdriver gouges in the cylinder walls from previous rebuilds. I used a ho-made press to remove the sleeves so I wouldn"t do the same thing. You can tell if the gouges are preventing the sleeves from seating completely by looking for discolored areas on the outer surface of the sleeves. A couple of the real deep screwdriver stopper gouges resulted in circular areas if discoloration(about 3/4 -inch dia) on the sleeves. To clean these up, I jacked a ridge reamer up throught the cylinder in the offending area to remove the upset metal at the edge of the gouge. After that (and on to your actual question) I just used a little mineral spirits and a green scotch bright to scrub the cylinders.

flathead

It helps if you can get a wife or kid to scrub the cylinders. They got smaller hands that fit down in the holes. My wife wouldn"t help me (something about smellin like an engine block) and I couldn"t get my 21 month old boy to scrub hard enough and he lost focus, so I had to use various sticks and whatnot to operate the scotchbrite. You may have better luck.

flathead