There's no "fix" that I'm aware of for the "beveled top" liners. The
sandwich gasket will accept a small amount of this, as long as the
liner protrudes the whole way around it. The usual fix is to get
another block. That's getting harder and harder to do over
time. Machining block or liner is fraught with peril and usually a
waste of money. May be good until the next rebuild, then nothing
seems to fit right. As long as all of the liners are doing the same
thing (as far as protrusion is concerned), there's some but not too
much protrusion all the way around the liner, a thou to maybe 3 thou
difference side to side can be tolerated. Mine are 1 to 2 thou
difference from passenger side to drivers side of the block. The
problem is in the block, not the liners. I have equal protrusion on
all 4 liners. Seals just fine.
- Tony D
At 07:55 PM 9/23/2008, Gary Nafziger wrote:
>I'm not into re-building my tr-3 engine yet but have some questions concerning
>liner protrusion, blowing head gaskets ect. Several members have mentioned
>that the protrusion is higher on one side of the block than the other. How do
>you handle this? You can't add 1/2 of a figure of 8 gasket to one side to (in
>effect) tilt the liner making the protrusion equal on top. so do you then
>just add gaskets to get a happy medium?
>
>thanks
>gary n.
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