Pressing sleeves into the block?

gwstang · Jan 25, 2015

I have a puck that fits the .090 sleeves, is it ok to use my hydraulic press to press the new sleeves into the block? Seems that would be better than beating on them with a piece of wood to drive them in? It just seems that the smoother they would go in, the less distortion there would be in the new sleeves. Just wondering?

TheOldHokie · Jan 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:17:47 01/25/15) I have a puck that fits the .090 sleeves, is it ok to use my hydraulic press to press the new sleeves into the block? Seems that would be better than beating on them with a piece of wood to drive them in? It just seems that the smoother they would go in, the less distortion there would be in the new sleeves. Just wondering?

Yes but be careful - very tempting to try to overcome a crooked alignment by cranking up the force. That will not produce a good outcome.....

TOH

Dell (WA) · Jan 25, 2015

hey gwstang........'stedda pressin', use DRY-ICE.... Make a "spool" outta 2-pieces of jig-sawed wood (don't haffta be perfectly round, just fit INSIDE the sleeve, one-end) and 6-12" of 1/2" all-thread and 4-nuts to fit. Now assemble yer spool INSIDE yer sleeve and fill the cavity with DRY-ICE chips ($1/lb; cheap) The DRY-ICE will "shrink" yer sleeve and will drop right into yer cylinder hole. Now remove yer bottom NUT and wood end piece and catch yer DRY-ICE chips innna bucket. ...repeat... Simple, eh? It should be intuitively obvious, wear some GLOVES. I can buy DRY-ICE at my grocery store.

Now isn't this eazier than worrying about PRESSING yer sleeve with a HYDRAULIC press?? .......yer frozen Dell, who when he was in Boy Scouts would put DRY-ICE in the "punch-bowl" fer the "party", 'specially effective when we invited the Girl Scouts (grin)

greywolf224 · Jan 25, 2015

Dell - they had dry ice back then? :roll: :roll: :roll:

You remind me of my father-in-law, God Rest his soul who passed a few years back at 91.

He was a mechanic his whole life and put in 25 years in the Marines. He loved telling the story of how he use to wrap ice in a towel and lay it on the dash board just below the windshield over the air vents. The air pushing through the towel would get cooled and his girl friends would love it.

Pressing sleeves into the block?

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