SHIZZLE STICKS! Small problem sleeving our Buick Straight 8 | Redline Rebuild Update #32

what we have here is a no hosel sticks hey we're over here at thorough base for our redline rebuild update on the straight eight Buick when we last were over here we went through and washed everything up got the block ready had our best educated information to know where we're gonna be at relative de Bourgh's and we said hey we got two that are probably pretty close to be able to be cut but it looks like we're gonna need all eight sleeves now did a little bit of research and we found out that this block could potentially go to 120,000 overstock that it has plenty of meat as far as like the end of the water jacket you have plenty of cylinder left so what we actually found though is not only the one hole already have a sleeve and now that we have a cut open we can see that that bore actually cracked at one point and then the back two bars that were really the ugliest that's the ones that we were really worried about even cleaning up at 120 and you found that they were still ugly at 140 yeah roughly above 140 and it was basically a three cylinders one of them may when I got done honing it I think it still wet sand pits left in it right and the other terror is just no way yeah so so we're not wasting cast iron here by cutting it all out i with nobody time we would least leave the two then we found that once no we're up to three that way I had a little bit pick so now we're up to four and then we would have been 120 yeah why not just just have it all brand new do it yeah okay good so this is all clean it's ready to go now there's been some questions on you know a couple things a is the sleeve material how does that work with the cast iron to how do you sleeve it in general as far as what does that mean and so I guess we're gonna walk through a little bit of a discussion on that normally what I do animus I'll leave the actual bore about a thousand small half smaller than actual rent will end up brick cleaning cleaning everything up putting Loctite in and then actually pressing the sleeves by when a puck on that big hammer yeah it's lamina don't you know dumbbells yep one thing that we do that I do that I was taught a long time ago is they put a big champ round the very top of the sleeve hmm so a lot of people end up pressing it down into the block it this way so it's in the in theory it's a delete in or your thought is so the thought is that's a great idea well in practice it really isn't so what I end up doing is putting just a real small radius on the edge and the reason why and kind of draw it out this is your solder bore and what I do is at the bottom of the bore I put a Ledge down at the bottom when the sleeve is coming in it butts up against it so you got to stop well if you got that big champ around there the sleeve actually is coming in it's right like that yeah so when you get it in it's actually only touching here it's got dead space here and then when you go through and board to size for you bore at 30 or 40 or 60 over you end up born it like that which leaves a gap which when the motor is running under compression and he got you to sleep tonight shut down and that's starting to bottom out there and then of course you have had gasket problem right yet let's go okay excellent back end me I'll finish this today because we need one more sleeve basically the larger diameter on the OD because of that sleeve that was in there he had basically go one step higher all right so then next time we'll hammer these in a moment and form out almost finish all right excellent we'll do this all right we got our new sleeve in we had to get that one that was a little bit bigger because this back hole was already had a sleeve so we had to take a little bit higher and as you can see here's the ones to go into here this will be a nice press fit and the other sleeve obviously this whole thing so that'll go in there likewise that loop likewise there now this is a real finessed operation I want you to pay attention [Music] Oh nuts that's a good thing we got extra huh we have here is a no hosel sticks nobody saw that better now than later definitely cast okay so here's what happened when we're putting in the second sleeve whatever caused it but basically it broke it at the end of the day and that's what one every thousand that happens for 30 years and I get one a one maybe two a year right that something goes right the wrong direction but so here's what is like said they they make new ones every day exactly so all we had to do is we had to put it back up on the bar board that back out get it to us basically paper thin and it just chips out of the way yes we could go through we could put them in with a press you still run the same danger because you're pushing down on it if that press isn't perfectly lined up in it you know it's gonna it and it's gonna shatter when it's not perfectly like it so the diesel stuff that I've done and you got do it in the press back there and I've had a happy with that yeah I mean its nature its nature of the beast this is what we do and this is how we do it yeah [Music] here we go [Music] we have all of our sleeves pressed in now Mike put a backup on the boring bar and obviously that sleeve isn't to size so now he's going back in and boring the ID out and we'll rough it in because we don't have our piston jet so we won't go into the hoenn but we'll rough it in the size it's three and three sixteenths for this Buick and he'll also before it comes out of here the sleeves stick up about that high he's going to take and cut a face cut them all the way down to just above that surface for the deck and then the final in two things will be decking the top of that block off and that'll clean up all those bores and that deck surface will be nice and be ready for the for the cylinder head all right we had a little curve ball this morning with that one sleeve but as you can see this block is done all eight sleeves are in its rough board and it's decked we'll need our pistons to do the final hone but otherwise this block is gonna be sitting waiting and we're gonna move on to the heads and the rods in the crankshaft so that does it for today thank you for watching we appreciate you hanging out with us and going through the pains that we go through to get these engines back and running watch for more of these videos because we also got that 50 pickup truck we're still working on and we're gonna have plenty of other stuff we have up ours we have up our sleeves so click Subscribe we'll see you then get out in the garage get your work done so you can go enjoy the ride - see you oh my aching belly

Channel: Hagerty

Views: 581,137

Keywords: Hagerty, Classic Car, Classic Cars, Hagerty Drivers Club

Id: jmMuEZDI-44

Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 24 2020