ummm my mind is gone for some reason. when preparing aengine cylinder for new piston rings and you want to get the cross hatch. which do you use? A: CYLINDER GLAZE BREAKER or B: CYLINDER HONE ?? there is no ridge in the cylinders but I do need to bring back the cross hatches. regards, TF
I just get it perfectly clean, then use a hone lightly, then clean the fresh honed cylinders w/ oil until no more black residue collects on the rag.
so I should just buy a cylinder Hone then? I know how to use the tool (they are the same, just diff stones), just cant remember what and when each one is to be used. I am guessing a Glaze breaker would be on a higher mileage motor that has a "glaze" on it. the hone would be to then smooth it back out and leave just a light cross hatch. does this sound right? When motor work is so expensive, you learn to do it yourself reall fast. I want that McLaren!!
I would recommend letting a machine shop do it with a torque plate for optimum ring sealing. I did my own hone job on one of my car engines (just a re-ring) and it burns a quart every 1000 miles cause it wasn't torque plate honed.
you only need a torque plate if you are boring it out. All I am trying to do is return some sort of cross hatch pattern for oil sealing. Only scratch the surface. I will see how much they want though.
If you are only trying to scratch the surface to restore cross-hatch, a ball style hone is what you want. If you are trying to properly fit a piston into a new bore by determining it's piston to wall clearance, use a straight bar style hone.
ok I would use a rigid hone when milling off a couple thousandths from cylinder wall either to top off the boring process, or to attempt to return a partially worn bore to perfectly cylindrical. To scratch the surface up WITHOUT altering its shape, the ball hone is more appropriate. I stand by my original statement of not using a rigid hone without a torque plate, because it WILL disturb the shape even if only a small mount. My dad and I have done a couple motors with just re-ring and rigid hone, and it just doesn't work out to a good seal.
