This is one of the only concepts I do not understand,

How do they put new sleeves in a block, are they pressed out and then pressed in?

Can anyone help me out on how this works?

 

Heres a video of a B-series getting sleeved.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YUuw2y4zyOE

 

read up earl's thread on how they install sleeves. What that guy did in the vid...that's scary...doing it by hand...I don't trust that method of installation.

 

judging by the way they did it in that video i dont see why it costs so much. hell anybody with access to a cnc mill and basic programming skills could do it. i always thought there was some special "trick" to sleeving a block that nobody was tellin or maybe that video just didnt show the hard part. prices should definitly be dropped for block sleeving cause that looked simple unless the sleeves themselves are what costs so much. IMHO

 

The sleeves are $550-$600.Most shops get around $175/hr of cnc run time.Plus the cost of fixturing , programing, and the actual installation of the sleeves.