Hone Cylinder

[EX400rider]

How do u hone the cylinder. Somone told me to get sand paper and rub it but i didnt think thats how.

nope, you gotta bring it to a shop

[rooster_20]

lol i wouldnt try the sandpaper deal but what the shop does when you hone a cylinder is they sorta bore it to get all of the imprefections out of the cylinder. Makes it faster

[Scro]

dont they make a cylinder hone that you can put on the end of a drill

[2004exrider]

someone must be tryin to make u screw up your cylinder. a hone is a rod with a bunch of little stones that are all around it that will fit in your cylinder and when you put it in a drill it takes out the imperfections

[Colby@C&DRacing]

It could be done with a drill but there is no guarantee that you can drill straight and center when using a rigid hone.

[greg_gorrell]

i have a cylinder hone. its basically just a drill bit with a rock material on the end. it has saved me a lot of wasted time and money but you have to make sure you know what your doing when you go to hone it because if its off then you will screw up your hone and your cylinder.

[tater_kamik]

i would have an shop do it, it isnt worth the pain and money if you screw up!

[AtvMxRider]

Originally posted by EX400rider
Somone told me to get sand paper and rub it

[nosliw]

Originally posted by bama450r
dont they make a cylinder hone that you can put on the end of a drill

only thing i would use that for is honing wheel cylinders. way too much risk imo.... too redneck....

[AtvMxRider]

Use a ball hone on a drill.

[greg_gorrell]

i would reccomend using a drill press, just incase you were thinking of using a hand drill. but im sure you could get one at an autoparts store or on the net somewhere. when you set it on your drill press, take a level and make sure that it is perfectly flat, i would reccomend a machinists level if you have access. also when you go to hone it, make sure you are centered. if you can get access to a mill, use it and center it up exact on there. thats what i did and it turned out perfect, now i gotta wait for c&d to ship my parts out. :(

[smith_400ex_213]

at the shop i work at we have tank specially made for honing cylinders and u set it in there and brace it down. then we have a stone hone and different sized bead hones...we use the stone hone for getting like pieces of aluminum off the sleeve or whatever and then use the bead hone for making the cross hatches...we dont use a drill press or nothing just an electric drill.....

[greg_gorrell]

oh yeah? are you a machinist?

[smith_400ex_213]

i might not be a machinist...but we bore cylinders... and when we take snowmobiles apart and check the tolerneces on the cylinders we gotta hone them so we can check to se if the are still good or need to be bored

[greg_gorrell]

are you using like a little ball hone on the end of your drill?

[smith_400ex_213]

bead hone
http://www.teamcalamari.com/pix/hone.jpg
and this is what our stone hone kinda looks like
http://www.alltiresupply.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/LIS-10000.jpg

[darkstar]

That is the same hone i have and i have done all me engine work and work for others with it and it comes out great.

buy one of those and do the work yoursef but use one can of DW40 on it and you will need the hole can.