So why does Dan LaGrou say "no resleeving, your engine will fail" and Phil
Baker says "it's okay to resleeve"?
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Dave Williams wrote:
> You might want to check around some more, perhaps out of your area, as
> the blocks are light enough to ship UPS. Going rate around here is $50
> per hole for singles, usually a discount for multiples.
>
> To do a sleeve the block has to be bored considerably oversize, the
> boring bar dismounted, the sleeve installed, the boring bar remounted,
> and then the hole bored to size. It takes as much time to install a
> single sleeve as it does to bore a whole bank of cylinders, which is why
> it's expensive. Then it has to be honed, of course.
>
> Machine shops also tend to get work in cycles. If you're not in a
> hurry, you might be able to negotiate a more favorable rate if they work
> on it during a time when there's no pressing work to be done.
>
|