Homemade sleeve puller ideas

Morgan Flowers · Jan 24, 2012

I was just wondering if anyone had any pictures of homemade sleeve pullers. Seems like they would be easy enough to make. I've got a N14 cummins and am needing to pull 1 sleeve out to replace it and with the engine and crankshaft still in the truck, I feel like a sleeve puller would make things easier. Thanks in advance, Morgan.

robgIN · Jan 24, 2012

you can go to OTC tools website and by the puck or sleeve puller plate separately, but even they are pretty pricey, the rest you can make with a piece of threaded rod and some steel plates. If you have access to a lathe you can make your own pucks. Here is what I have, part old sleeve puller set part stuff laying around.

Phil9N3667 · Jan 24, 2012

If you"ve got a friend/machine shop close by, they can make you a plate to go in the bottom of the sleeve, add some threaded rod (5/8 or 3/4") with a piece of pipe that"ll clear the O.D. of the sleeve, and a bar across the top pipe. It"ll come right out. Only got to move it about 2 1/2" and come out by hand at that point! This is a wet sleeve engine, so you"ll have to drain coolant of course. Reason I know all of this is I work on these for a living. If you know a guy who moonlights outside a diesel shop like I do on occasion, he probably has a puller he"ll loan you or remove it for a nominal fee. Main thing going back, is to get get it pressed down/bottomed out good in the upper counterbore. Where are you at? There oughta be a diesel shop close by that can help.. Good luck!

Nebraska Kirk · Jan 24, 2012

rexhellwig · Jan 24, 2012

The first time a homemade POS puller damages a $$$$ block . . . you just bought several of these:

And it will last the rest of your life and won't require additional custom cobbling every time you work on a different engine.

Morgan Flowers · Jan 24, 2012

Thanks for the ideas guys.. If I had a round piece to go at the bottom I think making the rest of the stuff would be a piece of cake. Btw I'm in Middle TN and there is a diesel shop about 10 miles away.

Thanks again,
Morgan

Repair · Jan 24, 2012

I made one 30 year's ago It works great, All I have to change is the plate on the bottom for the diff bore sizes, These plates are flat on 2 sides so you can slide then down the cyl from the top. Also has a thrust bearing on the top so the pulling nut turns easier.

glennster · Jan 24, 2012

heres a couple pics of my sleeve pullers. the one on the left is a genuine store bought. the right is home mades.

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Mike Groom · Jan 24, 2012

I run 3 cold weld beads equally spaced up the sleeve walls and when it cools you can tap it out with a wooden block,if the engine is turned upside down after cooling they sometimes drop out.Have done it for years and it never fails,you just don't want it to penetrate through the sleeve,that's why I said COLD beads.

mite-help · Jan 24, 2012

I have pushed them out from the bottom using a bottle jack & piece of pipe--works best @ 3.00 am on interstate with $92.00 in your pocket]

JDseller · Jan 25, 2012

There should be a machine shop around you that can make the push plates. You just need to measure the bore size and the OD of the sleeve. Just make sure the puller plate has plenty of clearance so it does not scratch the block bore. Smaller than the Sleeve OD.

I have my own lathe and I have dozens of plates I have made for the different sleeves over the years. I just have several different pieces of threaded rod of different lengthens that I use to pull with.

The top bracket I just made using two pieces of 1/2 x 4 inch flat steel 12 inches long. I just bolted the two pieces of steel together on edge with a stack of washers holding them apart just enough for the threaded rods to go through. I just use Oak wooden blocks to space the top bracket up off of the cylinder block. I have cut them in sets of two of different lengths.

S2710 · Jan 25, 2012

I don't have any pictures but I made a puck like what the other posters have and in the hole in the center I put a eye bolt and hooked a chain from a hoist and lifted. some times the sleeve just came out but other it would lift the front wheels of the tractor. If that happened just have the wheels about 2inchs off the ground and put a pipe up against the puck and hit it with a hammer and the weight of the tractor will help drive the sleeve out with no damage to the head surface.

Bob

redtom · Jan 25, 2012

All great ideas, but I had to pull really hard on some sleeves in a restoration and had the puller blocked up on top with two plates like most set ups shown here. I ended up pulling the web of the block between two sleeves up too! In hard situations it is best to back up the puller on top with a round sleeve bigger than the piston sleeve so you are pushing down all the way aroung the cyl. Thus, not breaking the block.

guido · Jan 25, 2012

Hello Morgan Flowers,
On a pinch a jack and a hard piece of wood, will do just fine. Once the first 1/2" comes out.....piece of cake.You may have to jump on the block a bit though, or use a (NON METALLIC)hammer to get it to go!
Guido.

oleclint · Jan 25, 2012

BOY , I am really an old fart!. I remember going To Tractor Supply with dad and buying several sizes of the ' pucks' or 'disks'. T S C had them on the shelf at the time . You were not able to buy clothes & etc. But they had all kinds of tractor parts .
Went home and built the rest of the puller.
Ahhh, the good old days? . clint

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