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Re: To hone cylinders or not to hone cylinders when re ringing
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 7/3/2025

To me, it depends on the cross hatch still left in the cylinders. With today's low tension piston rings, it seems like there is still a fine cross hatch at over 100K miles. If the bore has no, or little, cross hatch, I run my taper gauge, and inside mic to che... Login to read more.