White 2-85 block

[Mike from cny]

Working on a "78 White 2-85 with the perkins straight 6 diesel. One of the sleeves corroded through and antifreeze got into the cylinder, so it was torn down, and its sat for like 3 years. Machinest says its a press in dry sleeve that usually is bored out because their so tight. I figured it had wet sleeves. What do you guys think?

 

[Anonymous-0]

They are dry sleeve. Most modern Perkins are dry sleeve. Now what you may need to do is have that cylinder bored and a repair sleeve installed and then cut to fit the Perkins sleeves. They are tight.

 

[rrlund]

The instructions that come with those sleeves say to bore the block some miniscule amount,but I've frozen them and pressed them in.