Originally Posted by dthemi
In case you want to fix it. Make, or borrow a draw bar that pulls the sleeve down from the mains. While under pressure from the bar, beat the draw plate with a really heavy dead blow hammer until it would move a tenth. Measure all the sleeves to the deck, and use the lowest as your standard. Heat the block up ( I use a big kerosene torpedo heater) pull the sleeves, then deck the bare block to what you want for sleeve height.Then heat it up again, replace sleeves, let it cool, then use the draw bar and hammer again to positively seat them.

I've seen new blocks drop sleeves .01


Maybe I'm misunderstanding the procedure but what prevents the sleeves from moving downward again?


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