[AT] Ford "N" sleeves

[Chuck Saunders]

Well I tried the weld a bead and out comes the sleeve method on my 8n. 
Results were not as pretty as others have enjoyed.
Ran the beads -- the sleeves did not "fall out"

Had a machinist friend make up a disk the right diameter for a puller -- 
3 of the 4 came out (should have done this first) . 4th sleve is now 
broken and it appears that the no penetration rule has been violated.

Took block to Machine shop -- They bored out the remaining sleeve parts 
and suggested that it might be easier just to have them pull the sleeves 
to begin with. $100 later, Block hot tanked, head hot tanked, sleeves 
installed al traces of my skill are erased.

Hope your day goes smoother,
Chuck Saunders
Kansas City MO



Mike Sloane wrote:

> Damn! That sounds great (my kind of welding: get things hot, no 
> penetration) - I think I will give it a try as soon as it gets light 
> out. :-) Thanks to all with versions of this suggestion.
>
> By the way, we in NJ/PA/NY dodged another "bullet", as I hear that the 
> mid Atlantic got socked with heavy snow overnight; we only have a very 
> pretty "dusting". I knew that there was a good reason for getting my 
> snow blades mounted on the truck and tractors early. :-)
>
> Mike
>
> David Myers wrote:
>
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Mike, anything will work.  Just don't burn through and
>> try to get as hot as you can.  Let cool naturaly or
>> use water.  All you are doing is shrinking the liner
>> when it cools.  Works on bearing races also, they
>> darned near jump out.  Nice thing is if it doesn't
>> work the first time (99.44% success rate BTW), you can
>> always do it again without fear of hurting a thing. Oh yeah, beauty 
>> doesn't count here, don't even need
>> (or really want) penetration.  Have fun!
>>
>