eg2turbo

Ok...does anyone have pics of these sleeves? I cant find any online...and I need something to compare to the sleeves in my block...Im worried the shop DIDNT put them in

eg2turbo

ok so here are some pics.... stock sleeves:



and these are the sleeves that I have, with a block guard



And as far as I know...you cant weld aluminum to iron, therefore if those sleeves were iron, that block guard shouldnt be welded in. Can anyone please help?


[Modified by eg2turbo, 8:22 PM 2/14/2003]

rOby

i dunno man, i dont think u got any sleeves...normally there isnt two different materials in an aftermarkets sleeve( the dark half and the light half) like on your stock sleeve. and im pretty sure benson uses darton sleeves and darton sleeves are T shaped and all solid in color...i dont think you got sleeved, raise hell.....

CRX-RX

Funny you should ask.. I just took apart my motor today, and have a benson sleeved block and can tell you for certain that those are not benson's sleeves. An even easier way to tell is that the benson sleeves are o-ringed with copper on top to aid in sealing, and you don't have any of that. Time to raise hell.

ClubSiRacer

I'm running Bensons sleeves and yes, mine have a copper O-ring around the edges of each cyl. (Which I believe was an option) The sleeve material itself should look one solid color slightly darker than the aluminum of the block. They will also have a visable "seam" between each cyl as they are molded seperatly and then pressed in all at once.

ClubSiRacer

Here is a pic of my block from a couple years back. You can clearly see the copper O-ring and that the entire sleeve is a much darker color than the block itself.

eg2turbo

Well...thanks for the replies everyone, this guy swears up and down that they are bensons sports sleeves...but as soon as myself and a friend pulled this apart, we didnt think they looked any different than stock. Somes gonna get it tommorrow....

TrueNorthStar

That block has been sleeved, but if they are Bensons I cant say. You can tell by looking at the distance between the Iron sleeves. IF you look at the first pic you can see alot of Aluminum between the cylinders, in the second pic there is very little space.

I have seen Benson blocks that look just like that, but not for years...

eg2turbo

See thats what i was thinking...but its kind of odd to have an iron sleeve with an aluminum outer shell

J2turbo21

Here is a pic of mine,benson bottom end with o-ring.

eg2turbo

someone pointed out that the spacing is different on mine..however the stock block is a shot from a B16 and my block is a B18b.

ClubSiRacer

Where did you have the work done at?

eg2turbo

I wont say anything yet...im going to the shop in an hour or so to see what he says.