Bulldozer said: (quoted from post at 12:54:37 01/31/13) Would not even consider replacing the .04" wall sleeves with new .04" wall sleeves.
Jason indicated in his You Tube video the new .04" sleeves needed honing to size for the new pistons which came in the kit. The pistons would not even slide through the sleeve.
My .09" wall TISCO sleeves also required honing even after boring the block the correct size for the sleeves.
Proper engine rebuilding requires honing the new sleeves to correct size.
Understand hammering out old sleeves and pounding to in new sleeves to be shade tree mechanics but was common for the era.
Problem is the manufacturing tolerances on the foreign made TISCO .04" & .09" wall sleeves is so loose,
honing to size is required, unless you are extremely lucky on the draw of the cards
(sleeves).
Well I can only say my customers must be unusually lucky card players. One called me just yesterday to comment on this thread. He recounted how easy and simple it went for him a little less than a year ago when he replaced his factory .040 sleeves with nothing more than the TISCO .040 sleeves/pistons and one of my OEM style toolkits. He drove the old ones out with the removal tool and the new ones in with the installation tool just as shown in the Ford shop manual. No damaged sleeves and the proper piston clearance with no machining, no honing, no fuss. Just one of many lucky customers who have done it the "old fashion shade tree" way. I've lost count of how many of those tool kits I have sold to "lucky" customers but it's got to be getting close to 100.
Go back through this thread and you will see Jason indicated in his followup to my questions that the piston/sleeve fit on his TISCO parts appeared to be fine when they were unpacked from the box. The pistons fit through the bore in the sleeves fine until AFTER the machine shop installed the sleeves in the block. I wonder how that happened. :roll:
I''d love to stay and chat but I've got work to do in the shop - I have another half-dozen customers waiting on their toolkit orders....
TOH
This post was edited by TheOldHokie at 11:31:10 01/31/13.
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