Do I really need to hone the cylinder
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06-26-2003 | 04:36 AM
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06-26-2003 | 02:07 PM
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Do I really need to hone the cylinder
general speaking yes its the best thing to do. it doesn't take long for a shop to do it, its cheap, and the fresh hone serves to seat the rings with a very good seal. not honing supposedly will make the ring seat of the new piston not as good.
it is surprising to see how hard the nicasil is - my cylinder wall still showed the original factory honing marks after 120 hours when I did my rebuild. it looked just like a cylinder that had been freshly honed, with no signs of use!
it is surprising to see how hard the nicasil is - my cylinder wall still showed the original factory honing marks after 120 hours when I did my rebuild. it looked just like a cylinder that had been freshly honed, with no signs of use!
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06-26-2003 | 03:27 PM
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Do I really need to hone the cylinder
If you have less than 50 hours you may be ok. Costs about 20 bucks to have a machine shop do it and takes about 5 minutes. Beleive me! It is worth the extra time and money to make sure your motor is done correctly the first time.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
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06-26-2003 | 03:45 PM
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Do I really need to hone the cylinder
So its ok to hone the nikasil coated cyl? I'm planning to swap in a higher comp piston on my DS. I've been told to use my stk rings on the higher comp piston(CP, bought used), that way they are already seated to the cyl(as long as they are clocked correctly). I had never heard of doing this before. My motor has around 25-30 hrs on it...
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06-26-2003 | 04:11 PM
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Do I really need to hone the cylinder
Well, it would be used rings(outa my cyl) on a used higher comp. piston(bought it used). I've built many car and bike motors, but never heard of doing this. I can't see putting new rings(on a "old" piston) w/o honing the cyl either. I suppose i could have the cyl honed and put the rings that came with the piston in...???
