Wet Sleeves set to high fix

Bhunt · Oct 1, 2016

Anyone whos having issues with the wet sleeves setting to high I have been mulling over the issue for some time cause I'm to cheep to drive 100 miles and pay a machinist 400$ not saying its not a fair price He wanted to mill the block and the sleeve holes down.This morning out of the blue I thought Id try and use some course lapping compound I spread it around the edge of the hole and was able to fit my hand in the sleeve bore and quickly turn it back and forth rotating the start point 1/4 turn at a time and al be dang if it didn't work and it now fits like a glove. I'm probably not the first to stumble on this fix this but thought Id share it. Took about 30 min to bring it down to were it should be and it didn't cost me a thing already had the compound. You gotta love it when a plan comes together for a change. Well one more to go saving that for later when it cools off.
Hope it helps someone else Byron

brutus49DC · Oct 1, 2016

counter bores need to be cut with a slight angle up towards the sleeve, if you knocked the top of the taper off it's not a good thing

Bhunt · Oct 1, 2016

(quoted from post at 02:02:57 10/02/16) counter bores need to be cut with a slight angle up towards the sleeve, if you knocked the top of the taper off it's not a good thing

Thanks for the insight Brutus49dc I would say to others use caution if you do this but in this particular case I just don't see it. At any rate I'm only taking .004 off. The width of the flange on the block and the sleeve is .080. Even If it was tapered at all across .080 it would have to have a matching tapper on the sleeve in which case it still would just like a valve.
Thanks Byron

mEl · Oct 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 00:35:44 10/02/16)

(quoted from post at 02:02:57 10/02/16) counter bores need to be cut with a slight angle up towards the sleeve, if you knocked the top of the taper off it's not a good thing

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Thanks for the insight Brutus49dc I would say to others use caution if you do this but in this particular case I just don't see it. At any rate I'm only taking .004 off. The width of the flange on the block and the sleeve is .080. Even If it was tapered at all across .080 it would have to have a matching tapper on the sleeve in which case it still would just like a valve.
Thanks Byron

What protrusion did you start with , they are made with a few thousanths protrusion from the factory, I hope that you did not feel it necessary to remove .004 to get the sleves down to block level, what was your sleeve standout before lapping them down?

Bhunt · Oct 6, 2016

I took it from .007 to .003

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