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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 264 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 264 | How reliable is an engine with a cracked and deformed (out of round for about an inch midway) cylinder that gets professionally sleeved?
It's not a stovebolt, but destined to haul one - a 2000 Cat 2136 7.2l diesel in a GMC C8500. Will be gently used for hauling the '52 for longer trips, hopefully for some of the meets below the border if we ever get over Covid stuff.
If this needs to move moderators, please do so.
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Mike | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | This post will probably get zapped pretty quickly- - - -send me a PM. I've been installing sleeves for 50-something years.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,451 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,451 | 52 vff Cylinder sleeves if properly captured (so they can't move) will go ahead and wear the engine out. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,451 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,451 | 52vff In blocks with not much damage would put in a 3/32 sleeve (.093) then bore .030 over. Could get it so you couldn't tell which hole the sleeve was in. Ran those street and in dirt cars never lost one. | | |
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