What does that have to with whether or not a 4g63 block can be safely sleeved and reused?

 

This guy annoys me as well.

However, in this case he does have a point. He did mistep in saying it was the bigger point, but I do agree with his questioning of the reason of failure.

That burned to think about/say

 

Why does everyone seem to hate rightsaidfred? Is it because he's too sexy for his post count?

 

The failure in my motor was a small hairline crack which was most likely caused due to the bore on the motor not being done correctly. My motor had piston slap which I think is what cause premature wear in the sleeve which caused the crack. I believe that the structural integrity of the block has no issue. But idk if I want to gamble and use the same motor

 

lol 10$ jesus...

 

If OP were asking why it failed or if his setup was the reason/possible cause of another, then yes. But he wasn't, he was asking if sleeving a 4g63 makes sense. Not "the point". If it were anyone else making that comment, I probably wouldn't have noticed. LOL

I wish we could play music in threads :LOL:
I hear the song every time he posts.

But comments his "I'm always right, you're all wrong" attitude is Perry much why.

 

This engine isn't constructed with sleeved cylinders. So, since you have a crack in a sleeve, the block has already been sleeved. Since it has been sleeved and then failed, junk it.

 

You're acting like a 5 year old who talks too much and never listens.

 

OP,

I hate to admit it, but you are better off purchasing a fresh oem block and going from there. The fact that you caught a small crack in the bear shortblock saves you a lot of future trouble. People have also thrown away these cast iron 4g63 blocks for cracked transmission bolt holes and spider cracked cylinder head mating surfaces. They will be between 1500.00 - 1800.00 new, but that is not abnormal when it comes to motor builds.

Best of luck with everything.

 

Thats pretty much what I'm gonna do get a new block and crank and do a 2.0 instead of my current 2.3... ill try and sell the block, crank, and pistons from my old setup.

thanks for all the responses and help guys

 

You're acting like a know-it-all who needs to go off topic for the sole purpose of showing everyone how smart you are.

All he asked is if our blocks can be sleeved and, if so, is it reliable.

You: "hoopity hoopla more the point is how it failed in the first place blah blah". You go off about holes in the wall, wrist pins gouging it, etc. You didn't even bother to notice or address that OP says it's cracked. And you talk about "listening". None of that answered his question.

 

You're wrong. Wet sleeves in a 4b11 are just as good as a dry sleeve 4g63 to repair a gouge. Open and closed deck aluminum blocks get sleeved as almost standard practice for big power these days, and the processes are reliable. This does not fall under your "it's just my opinion". You are simply wrong here.


That being said, a new sleeve to repair an iron block is usually done to repair deep gouging, not a crack. A crack indicates the block has been compromised, and should really be replaced. My machine shop wont sleeve a cracked cylinder, they will only do it if the need for a sleeve is due to a deep gouge.

 

RightsaidFred is a special character. He is actually a very smart guy, but extremely random and deceptive. Some say he actually has another account on here and that he uses the RightSaidFred
account to troll evom. He may know the right answer to many issues, but chooses to answer them incorrectly. Why? I'm not sure, but evom.net is a brighter and more surprising place with him as it brings a certain comedy to the field.

 

Hey, thanks for the commentary on that issue

The (EvOM) moderation group is very tolerant of all our members & are doing our best to increase the membership going fwd

Just consider, that comments posted in the tech forums should be considered opinions, some more factual than others. Tech posts are certainly not technical "White Papers"

 

I'm not surprised. If I'm theorizing, I try to make it obvious:

Plus my sig... Thank goodness for disclaimers

It's funny, though it gets under my skin when he tries to get under others'. But that's his thing here, so... But really what can we do when we're a bunch of five year olds LOL
Rumor has it you can look up member IP addresses to help figure out who it is. But.. that's just rumor.