Never said to use Ag sleeves- only to include shops that do Ag work in your search for a machinist. They can and will install whatever type sleeve is required, and often at a significantly lower cost.
Why would it be at a significantly lower cost? The same amount of machining is required no matter if its for a tractor or a road vehicle. I think you're mistaking a wet sleeve/and or a dry sleeve with a flange designed for a counterbore in the deck, both of which are common in the AG industry. The hardest part about both of those is the removal and that ain't all that difficult. The install is either lube up the O-rings on a wet and or freeze the dry sleeves and drive em in. In a block that NEVER had a removeable sleeve in the first place involves--Boring the block for proper interference fit/roughing the sleeve to length/machining a squared up step(counterbore for sleeve to sit on)/installing sleeve/boring sleeve/machining protruding sleeve and/or decking block/ and final honing/chamfering---Takes ALOT longer than anything in AG world. I'd like to know where the cost savings come in. J.Rob
