Regarding restoring white-metal sleeve mains, has anyone tried this?
The mains in the Coventry Climax engine of my 1926 Clyno car are thick
white-metal sleeves pressed into cast-iron end plates - (2 mains).
Journals were OK, mains just a bit loose. I pressed the sleeves out and
"dumped" them using a specially turned dolly and a calibrated sledge
hammer, then hand-scraped them to fit the shaft and added a steel shim
to take up the increased end-play.
Worked for me. Probably did wonders for the crystalline structure.
Jack Watson
- posted
17 years ago