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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,776 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,776 | For a re-ring job without a rebore and new oversize pistons, I like to break the glaze with a "button" hone, one with individual carbide balls on flexible stems. (Sometimes known as a "dingleberry" hone). Once you have a good crosshatch pattern established to help the rings seat, do a THOROUGH cleanup with HOT soapy water and a stiff bristle scrub brush, followed by a boiling water rinse. Any hone grit left in the cylinders will keep honing- - - - -and the piston rings will be the first thing to go. I totally wore out a set of new rings on a cross country trip from California to Tennessee- - - -about 2500 miles- - - -because I didn't do good cleanup during a ring and rod bearing job before we started the trip. By the time we got to Nashville, I was burning 3 quarts of oil to every tank of gas! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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