Can you hone the ds cylinder with a drill-style hone? I've done it to other cylinders but those all had steel sleaves, also, how do you remove the keepers on the valve?:s like i could compress the spring but i couldn't get the keeper off, can i just reuse my old headnuts? what are the torque on those nuts and the cylinder bolts?
is there anything else i shoud know before i do this?

 

Take you cylinder to professional! Most people do not recommend a drill hone on a Nikasil cylinder. You are better off having it done on a real horizontal boring machine, Vance & Hines told me this. Get new nuts for your Stay bolts, do not use them again. Stay bolt nuts are torqued to 44 ft. Lbs and the other 4, 8mm bolts are torqued to 24 ft.lbs. I believe.

 

punishers right, it would be better to leave the cylinder alone than to do it with a drill, the head bolts were hard to find, for me first time. dealer had them. now i have some that take a 17 mm snap-on thin wall socket, others wouldn't fit.

 

so i'd be better off leaving it then doing it myself?

 

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