I have replaced press-in sleeves with flanges on a 50s era I-H 60 HP tractor. So they do exist. Probably not for a 283 Chev though. To install them one goes to the catering supply house for a box of dry ice and freezes the sleeves and taps them in with a block of wood and a mallet. Be quick about it or you will have to start overm maybe wasting the sleeve.

When I worked in the antique motorcycle shop we bored and sleeved all sorts of cylinders, Vincents, Sunbeams, Matchless V-twins, a Brough Superior, even a 650 Norton Manxman for which cylinders were NLA. Got to know the catering supply folks up the street quite well. Those days are gone these 30 years though. Sigh.


1951 3800 1-ton
"Earning its keep from the get-go"
In the DITY Gallery
1962 261 (w/cam, Fenton headers, 2 carbs, MSD ign.), SM420 & Brown-Lipe 6231A 3spd aux. trans, stock axles & brakes. Owned since 1971.