D17D rebuild progress report pt 2

I got "nice" information on my D262 block today. The machine shop was supposed to recut the counter bores for the sleeves. I thought I had a problem on #1 only. They tell me that the rust was what was holding the sleeves up. They were all in bad shape. Then they ask if I have another block. I says no. Well, Midwest cylinder head can resleeve the bores. About $100 per hole. It's pretty much like installing a giant valve seat. At least there is a fix...

Resleeveing these engines is not to hard. Enless your block was under serious pressure or heat. Chances are you can get a master rebuild kit from agkits.com and do it yourself. You will need a way of checking cylinder stand out. Like a backlash/ pinoin depth checker works. If you install a sleeve and cylinder completely and it has an abnormal range of stand out. the worst you have to do is take it to a machine shop for measurement and machine work. You can even check things like that counter bore. Useing plasti-gauge. Lots of little steps you can do to advoid the big bills at the machine shop. But if you do measurements and they come out funny. Don't hesitate to do it a time or 3. And then don't hesitate to ask for help.

It was at Arnold's in Ankeny Ia, they're a long standing shop with a good reputation. They hot tanked it and he said he wire brushed all of the rust out of the counter bores and said it would require too much off the deck and the ledge would be too narrow when done. Arnold's recommended sending it to Midwest Cylinder Head in Nevada Ia for them to sleeve the counter bores. I'll find out today what it's going to take to fix. I'm told if I look for another block, find a gas block and just block off the water pump hole in the block.