sleeve seals
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Topic: sleeve seals
Posted By: 1946WP
Subject: sleeve seals
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2011 at 8:51pm
| How do you put sleeve in without ruining them on a c or b allis? I've done it before by just lube them up w/ vaseline. Twist them a little, tap a little & they went in. Today I messed up two of them , so I quit for tonite. |
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Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2011 at 8:53pm
| Wow I'm talking about the O-rings, not the sleeves themself. |
Posted By: Joe/NC
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2011 at 8:56pm
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Most of the time, seals get messed up like that when there is a "burr" or something in the way. Make sure all is clean and clear. Maybe the seal is the wrong size, packaged wrong? And some days things don't go well when I get tired and in a hurry. Tomorrow it might fit right together! Good luck! |
Posted By: Hurst
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2011 at 9:03pm
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Can also try assembling with vegetable oil. It won't cause the o-rings to swell up like petroleum based lubricants can. Hurst ------------- 1979 Allis Chalmers 7000 5800 Hours |
Posted By: gcalent
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2011 at 12:58pm
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Hurst is right on, don`t use petrolium based lube on the o-rings ------------- Pullin With AC |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2011 at 1:28pm
| You may have to tight of a fit. You need to have enough clearance to drop the sleeve down in the hole and turn it 360 degrees with one hand. The O ring must have some clearance/space to keep from shearing off part of it. The bottom hole needs to have a slight chamfer to let the O ring start to enter. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2011 at 1:48pm
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I remember having to run a rabbit turd hone on the sleeve seal areas on my CA engine to get rid of rust, burrs, and proper fit like Dick says. 15 years later it's still going strong... ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Steve M C/IL
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2011 at 1:52pm
| Yeah,don't forget to "dry fit "them first.If it won't drop in and spin freely you got some more cleaning to do.My 45 block had small champfer leading to bores. |
Posted By: Matt MN
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2011 at 2:28pm
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I have used dish soap as the lube for them, the groove where they seal needs to be cleaned out very well, I use a small wire wheel attached to a small air grinder then wash them out good with some brake cleaner. ------------- Unless your are the lead horse the scenery never changes!! |
Posted By: KY
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2011 at 2:31pm
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We had some once that were made too big and would not fit! The first two tore up and we quit. Turns out they were for a stock sleve and not the eighth inch overbore. Got the right ones and they pressed right in |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 7:47am
| thanks guys for all the advise. left the project a few days & things went alot better. I have to get new o-rings for the cycl that got ruuined . I used the veg oil & they tapped right in(with no pieces of O-ring left peeled off) . will do the other when I get the new O-rings. |
Posted By: bobkyllo
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 8:48am
| you guys dont suggest vasaline on the o-rings? i am getting close to putting the engine back together on the wd45. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 9:12am
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I used veg oil on my D262 sleeve o-rings. Vaseline is petroleum based. I'd use veg oil if I were you. Not saying Vaseline won't work, but the ordinary veg oil works very well. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 9:13am
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My wife has a tube of stuff in her night stand that works wonders to get the O ring seals to slip in place. It is water based.
If you get black greese on the tube don't put it back in the drawer.
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Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 9:45am
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So is there now a tube in both the night stand and the tool box? LOL ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 12:11pm
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that's that kentucky jelly I've heard so much about! Ain't very good on toast! LOL! ------------- 210 "too hot to farm" puller, part of the "insane pumpkin posse". Owner of Guenther Heritage Diesel, specializing in fuel injection systems on heritage era tractors. stock rebuilds to all out pullers! |
Posted By: Michael Crowe
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 2:16pm
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When I rebuilt my WD45 Distillate, I put the new sleeves in the freezer over night and they went in much easier. Hard to get the wife to agree to that if they aren't spotless, but then these were new and I did not tell her. I used the freezer in the garage. ------------- The 14th Annual Exclusive AC Swap Meet will be held in Boonville, MO, March 7-8, 2025. See the club website for details: http://www.moacclub.com/ |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 3:02pm
| Freezing them would help by giving you a wider gap for the O ring to enter but if you (can not) turn them (freely) all the way down with the O rings off and freeze them to get them in you (take a chance) of cracking the top sleeve ring/lip when you torque the head down. This is when you find one side of the sleeve higher above the deck than the other side. Cast iron sleeves do not flex much. Freezing is for installing (dry sleeves) and people get mixed up between the two when they have not been around both and tend to give bad advise. I am baffled at how many people I run across that do not know what a wet sleeved engine means. A GM trained mechanic that had worked on cars for many years was totally in disbelief that my 1923 Chevy had shimmed rod bearings that had the shims were between the rods and caps. |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 3:08pm
Now I know why my wife has taken an interest in working on trctors! LOL
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Dick L wrote:Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 3:13pm
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Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 3:53pm
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I don't know why I'm not offended because I really should be. I let you in on a little (secret) and I bet it is being shared with everyone. It's only a secret if you keep it to yourselves yaknow. Ya go telling your wives and they will be looking thru their night stands for greasy finger prints.
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