Coolant leaking into 318 cylinder 8

Newbomb Turk said
WTF?? Ok what are they charging for the install and the sleeve?

It should be 225 or less. No way can you machine a block for 225 bucks.

I’ve set literally hundreds if not into the thousands of sleeves. I had to set sleeves in a TA block. All eight. When I quit racing I sold that block because I had two X blocks. I sold it to a guy doing a 70 TA clone.

A sleeve is the simplest, cheapest fix. If you have a machinist who isn’t comfortable sleeving a block find a new one.

If he can’t bore a hole to size he’s not a machinist. He’s a poser.

My shop will machine the entire block for a little over $500 and that includes some of the new bearings I will need. To sleeve one cylinder is less than $200. But they cannot just sleeve it and walk away. They have to check adjacent cylinders for distortion, and they have to redeck the block after it is sleeved. Probably will come out closer to $300 when finished. And I don't know that I should trust the block.

I am over $7K into this engine bay already. Not going to shortcut it for a couple hundred bucks.