Inliners International Forums General Discussion Engines Hagerty Buick straight 8 rebuild

This is an interesting rebuild. Informative for a dumb @$$ like me.

stock, these videos are not showing, not sure why????

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPFTO1h2c64[/video:youtube]

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdbKCiHXsM[/video:youtube]

Works for me, thanks.

The video hosting sites can be quite finicky about playing videos framed at another site via media tags - especially for users that are not logged onto the video platform.

Sometimes when a video is relatively new they will allow anonymous remote play - but only for a short period. This can be frustrating in a Forums environment because a media tag may initially work and then subsequently fail after the editing window is closed. In such cases even the url to the video is lost. When remote play is blocked at Post Time you get the result we see here where the media tags print as texts and the URL turns into a link.

This is why I typically don't use the media tags for video and instead embed links in the posting.

panic,

I know you commented on some of his comments in the 216 rebuilt, but I have to say I'm jealous of those guys...when they do a rebuild they do it complete, no replacement spared in the process...I guess with Hagerty sponsoring them they have deep pockets...

Indeed YouTube is finicky in regard to how they operate.

I like them as I can host videos and post on other sites. They normally work for me.

Must be nice to have deep pockets...damn that block sure looks nice...

SHIZZLE STICKS! Small problem sleeving our Buick Straight 8

Can't believe he's putting sleeves in with a sledge. Huge piece blew out under stress:

I like to put them in a box, fill sleeve with dry ice. They practically slide in.

To me that's about the best and only way to do any sleeve.

I sorta' like the hammers on approach but I'm a hammer kinda' guy. I have them in all sizes. Thats a cool video, great machines in that shop.

What Tom said!! Over night in the freezer works well!! I've stood a block in front of a bullet heater for an hour or so and slid frozen sleeves in almost effortlessly!!

I thought so at first also, but consider that they seem to do a lot of them and he states that happens occasionally when using a press also. He seems to know what he's doing, and the results looked exceptional after he got the tops cleaned up.

A couple comments about freezing the sleeve before insertion, keep in mind he's using loctite on the sleeves. Not exactly sure what effect that would have on the loctite, but blue loctite as he was using requires quite a bit of heat to loosen so freezing might play havoc on how it sets with the sleeve. I'm just a backyard wrench who does some machining...but I know temps do matter when using loctite.

With a ridge machined at the bottom of the cylinder bore the sleeves are captive once the head is torqued down. Not sure the loctite is really necessary.

I'd say that without Loctite, he'd stand an even greater chance of having the sleeve 'pick up' as he pounded it in. Might as well have just used some motor oil as most if not all of the Loctite never even made it to the bottom (left on the surface). Loctite isn't cheap by the way...but strangely I love the smell of it.

Watching the video he said the bores were left .0005 to .001 small which isn't much of a press fit. My personal rule of thumb when using heat is .002" interference per inch of diameter and .001" interference when using liquid nitrogen to shrink. So even if he had done a safe .0035" interference and nitrogen/dry ice he could have avoided the abuse he put those sleeves through. I would never pound on cast iron or steel at those wall thicknesses. Made for an interesting video. Love my Buick's and never had the opportunity to own a straight 8. Maybe some day.