hello. Am new here and hopefully someone can help me on this. I have an 8N with side mount distributor and it had running problems so i took the pan off and found pieces of metal there which later turned out to be number 3 sleeve. .40 or thinwall kind.
I have a couple of things that maybe somebody can help me with.
1) Do all side mount distributor 8N motors have the .90 sleeves?
2) My 8N side mount dropped the #3 sleeve into the oil pan. It has the .40 sleeves in all cylinders
Here is what it looks like.
A) I looked in the cylinders of the other three and there is a gap between the piston and cylinder wall of about 1/8 inch. I could actually see the rings.
Is this normal? The pistons have STD stamped on the top. Could this have been bored out that much?
B) I was able to pull the remaining sleeves out by hand even with the pistons still in there. That can't be normal? The walls of the block look great and no scratches etc.
The sn is 409277
Thanks for any help you can give.
I have a couple of things that maybe somebody can help me with.
1) Do all side mount distributor 8N motors have the .90 sleeves?
2) My 8N side mount dropped the #3 sleeve into the oil pan. It has the .40 sleeves in all cylinders
Here is what it looks like.
A) I looked in the cylinders of the other three and there is a gap between the piston and cylinder wall of about 1/8 inch. I could actually see the rings.
Is this normal? The pistons have STD stamped on the top. Could this have been bored out that much?
B) I was able to pull the remaining sleeves out by hand even with the pistons still in there. That can't be normal? The walls of the block look great and no scratches etc.
The sn is 409277
Thanks for any help you can give.