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Originally Posted by johncub7172
I found the thread interesting, because I myself did not think folks would go to such a event to sleeve a Iron Line Kohler. Then after reading the comments, I thought why not? Seems to me that that procedure in general is a very common practice. I mean, way back when, the old Wisconsin air cooled engines { some two cylinder inline } had been made to re-sleeve when the problem arose. Then I had thought how common the practice is when you think about big diesel engines, like Cat, Mack, International, and how those get re-sleeved all the time.
edit: Speaking of International, today, stopped at the red light was a HUGE International 444 Payscrap on a rather large, with many wheels carry-all trailer. The tractor looked really nice!
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Just as a note: The big diesel motors, and quite a few IH gas engines, were made with sleeves. You just press or drive the old ones out (depending on if they are wet, or dry sleeves) and put new in. MUCH different than sleeving a motor that was not built with them.
Merk must have a really good machine shop. Every time I wanted to sleeve a motor (kohler or otherwise) by the time you paid for the sleeve and the machine work, it was cheaper to buy another block!
