Lubricating sleeve seals for installation

My Super C rebuild is coming along. Hopefully install the new sleeves in the coming week. The I&T manual says use soap to lubricate the sleeve seals for installation; is soap the best thing to use?

Thanks,
Bill

Clean-up looks to be a challenge on this one. There seems to be a pound of mud down in the cooling jacket. I'm assuming most of it is Stop-Leak; the radiator was butchered up.

Bill

Once you get that grease and dirt off
the engine is nice and clean for assembly. Very easy to repaint too. I never found any of that radiator Stop-Leak worth the effort. It usually
does what you found, stop up the radiator.

Another problem with radiators is most people do not change their antifreeze. Every
other year I think it should be drained and flushed and install new antifreeze solution. It loses its rust inhibitor and then starts plugging
up the tubes. There is some antifreeze on the market that is good for 5 years, I've never used it. I always make a 50/50 solution. It protects
down to -30 degrees and it very seldom goes below
0 degrees here in eastern MD. Ten years ago it went down to -15. Good Luck, Hal