Whiskey
Platinum Member
Was out shopping last weekend, you know trying to spend the little wifeys money on a tractor /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif and had one of the dealers tell me out of the three 30 hp. CUT's I'm looking at, his was the only one with sleeves in the block. Got me to thinking is this all that important.
Out of the three tractors I'm looking at they are all cast iron blocks and best I know the sleeve's are cast iron so what gives. Is this a rebuild issue meaning it's easer to rebuild if you only have to put new sheeves in when overhauling as aposed to boring out a motor and sliding in a sleeve, or can you even bore out a non-sleeved motor for fear of getting the walls to thin or comming to close to oil and water passage in the block? Does a sleeved motor last anylonger than a non-sleeved motor?
Last but not least should I even care about this on a CUT tractor being it's not a big farming tractor that is going to be working it's butt off everyday to make a living for me?
so in lighten me guy's
Whiskey
Out of the three tractors I'm looking at they are all cast iron blocks and best I know the sleeve's are cast iron so what gives. Is this a rebuild issue meaning it's easer to rebuild if you only have to put new sheeves in when overhauling as aposed to boring out a motor and sliding in a sleeve, or can you even bore out a non-sleeved motor for fear of getting the walls to thin or comming to close to oil and water passage in the block? Does a sleeved motor last anylonger than a non-sleeved motor?
Last but not least should I even care about this on a CUT tractor being it's not a big farming tractor that is going to be working it's butt off everyday to make a living for me?
so in lighten me guy's
Whiskey