I'll take the hit for this. I originally started this topic wanting thoughts on sleeving a 216, hence the 'Sleeved Block'. But my mind got ahead of my typing (hunt & peck), and I got off on the rod bearing deal. I probably should had done that in another topic.
There is a reason there is vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and so on and so on. Some want exact original, some want close as they can get to original (or appearance thereof), and some want a disc brake set-up with a small block V8.
Me personally, I wanted to do this truck, back to original as close as possible. I want it looking and driving like it did when it left the Chevy dealership back in 1951. Have no intentions of selling or swapping or trading it. I'm not in my mid 30's, but mid 50's. And my 9 year old grandson (Kade) already knows it's his one day.
My thinking, if it came with a 216, for it to be authentic, it needs to stay with a 216. And whatever course I have to go, to make this 216 run like new, then that's the course I'm taking. But that course may not be for the next guy. And that's fine. That's why Baskin-Robbins is in business.
I don't really care that my 216 had to be sleeved, it didn't come sleeved, but it's going to run like new, and it for all intents and purposes, it has an original (or real close to it) 216.
HRL, you can add your oil pump option to that legal pad half-page of stuff that DOES work. Know this, those naysayers have not attempted it.
Now that I'm off my soapbox, any pros or cons on sleeving a 216?
Mike
