Removing / Installing Sleeves

Well, most of my parts have arrived for my 8N engine. The head had to be shaved .012.

Anyway, time to remove the old sleeves. I read numerous posts about it, with many methods, all of which made sense.

To remove, i just got a screwdriver and peeled a strip down the length of each, squeezed the edges together and it came right out.

To install;
Considered the dry ice method, but I live in Central Pa. and the nearest possible source of dry ice is about 1 hour away. So i considered a combination.

Stuck the sleeves in the freezer, thinking, nowhere near as good as -109 Deg dry ice but, should shrink a little. Inserted it in cylinder and banged it in with a hammer and block of wood.

The sleeve did go in, but i caused a chip to break off at the top about 1/4" sq and cracked a small rectangle in the top. Maybe the cold metal was too brittle. So that's one wasted sleeve.

I never did this before, so I probably just don't have the "knack".

So, my choices are

#1: to keep practing with the 3 remaining brand new sleeves using a steel plate to bang on or,

#2: rent a lift somewhere, separate the engine and take it to the nearest ford dealer or,

#3: Go get the dry ice and do that routine and if they don't slip in by hand go back to # 1 or #2

You are lucky you didn't ruin the block by trying to peel the sleeves out. That happens a lot! The only sleeve that was ever intended to be removed by peeling them was the original steel. .040 sleeve. Not the cast iron at all.

Zane

From reading your post 2 things that I did come to mind.

I had my block on the back of my truck, and had it within a few feet of the deep freeze, I only did one at a time out of the deep freeze.

The first time I did it I had instructions from a local professional, and it was his recommendation that I coat the outside of the sleeve, and the inside of the cleaned block with glycerin, it was hard for me to find this last go round, but I finally found a bottle at an old drug store.

Last go round, three of them slid home with my hands, the last one stopped an inch or so out, I quickly got a piece of 2 x 6 and a BFH, and put the 2 x 6 on top, got on the 2 x 6 with both feet and 200+ lbs, and a few taps sent it on down.

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Just bolt the sister tool up:

And it's out faster than you can get the pump handle in your press:

I can't wait to give it a run on my '39.

Dan

That'll give TOH something else to do in his spare time: Build presentation-grade puller boxes.

Dan

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