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| | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 78 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 78 | Hey guys,
I had a lifter bore dingle berry hone that i have had for a while. Now I can't remember who borrowed it and no one will fess up. I'm having trouble finding a new one. NAPA and Summit just say use a brake cylinder hone. I could, but I liked the ball hone. Looking for a supplier. Any help is welcome.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Not knowing your situation, I just gotta ask this. Why would you need to hone the lifter
bore??? That’s very unusual, valve lifters are fit up with a very tight tolerance, down in
the tenths of a thousandth generally. Unless they have been run dry this is one of the last
places for wear to turn up in an engine. God knows I haven’t seen everything but I sold
auto parts in a past life and I never sold an over size lifter for a gas engine.
If your lifters are tight 99.9% of the time it’s just varnish and can be cleaned up with
carburetor cleaner or something similar and a fine Scotch Brite (gray) pad. If your bore is
rally gummed up and you really need to be aggressive, you can slit a wooden dowel and
use a strip of Scotch Brite driven by your trusty Milwaukee drill motor. If for some reason
the bore got scored up then you could also use the dowel with a fine grit emery cloth and
a light oil such as kerosene or fuel oil.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 46 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 46 | Oversize lifters were available yrs ago for worn block bores.Sunnen does make a hone to straighten the bore. Typically, about a 1/2 to one thou is all you want, otherwise you'll hear them click,rattle, especially at idle. David | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,107 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,107 | when i did mine i just used a plummers pipe brush with carb cleaner. came out rifle barrel clean. | | |
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