Re: Anyone ever re-sleeve a 401?

You'll have to take the block to a machine shop and see if it can be sleeved. If the hole is just in the inner cylinder and there are no cracks in the outside of the water jacket it should be sleevable. It will also depend on how close to the bottom or top of the cylinder the hole and extending cracks are. The shop will check the block for cracks for you. It will cost around $100 for the checking, should be a little under. That's if you take a bare block to them and make it easy. Still, it should be worth the effort. If it's obvious the shop won't charge much, maybe not anything -- depends on how obvious it is to them that it isn't worth fixing. Check with another shop if one says no. They may just not want to risk it (warranty work later) or not realize how hard the block is to find. I suspect that none will give you a warranty, but it should be safe and not leak coolant with a standard pressed in sleeve. 

On January 25, 2005  wrote:

> From: Brian Carter <bcarter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Anyone ever re-sleeve a 401?
> 
> Hey all,
> I just tore down my recently acquired 401 (from the junkyard) and found
> a nice gaping hole in #8 cylinder wall.  Everything else is fine, except
> for that one little detail.  Was wondering if anyone has had any luck
> re-sleeving a block, and if it is at all worth the effort.  I haven't
> looked into the cost as of yet, but I imagine it ain't gonna be cheap.
> So if what I have on my hands is one gigantic paper weight, anyone
> interested in buying a perfectly good 401 crank? :-)
> Thanks!
> 
> -Brian
> '65 Marlin
> '71 Javelin SST
> '91 Mazda MX6
> 
> '01 Nissan Xterra
> 
> 
> .


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