Fw: cylinder honing, piston ring minutia

["Daegrigg (Don)" <daegrigg@domain.elided>]

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From: "Daegrigg (Don)" <daegrigg@domain.elided>
To: "ethan schartman" <eschartman@domain.elided>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: cylinder honing, piston ring minutia


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ethan schartman" <eschartman@domain.elided>
> To: <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 10:39 AM
> Subject: cylinder honing, piston ring minutia
>
>
> > digesters,
> >
> > i am soon going to undertake replacing the piston
> > rings  on my 2.5l V6 (recall i broke one while
> > replacing a liner o-ring), with 90k miles on it.
> >
> > i have couple questions that i don't remember seeing
> > covered in the recent cylinder honing thread(s):
> >
> > 1) as per the honing thread, i am ordering a ball
> > style hone. but what grit should i get? standard
> > choices are 120, 180, 240, and 320. i am thinking that
> > since i am just going to break the glaze in order to
> > bed the rings properly that a fine grit like 320 is
> > the way to go.
> >
> >
> > 2) once i've got it back together, what procedure
> > should i follow to seat the rings? there's no info on
> > this (that i've found) in the shop manual. braden
> > offers a couple different methods (slowly increasing
> > engine load over many miles, to hard going from the
> > start) - but i'd like some more concrete thoughts on
> > this. also, how long is too long to let the engine
> > idle once fired up? do i need to look out for anything
> > while doing the compression test when i button it all
> > up?
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > ethan schartman
> > '87 milano gold
> > princeton, NJ
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> > -
>
> Ethan,
>
> Here is a link on proper break in procedure.
> http://www.hastingsmfg.com/Service%20Tips/breakin_procedure.htm
>
> I recently completed a ring job on my 86 spider.  I used the conventional
> tool with retangular honing stones.  My cylinders were well within spec
and
> the rings seated quickly following the procedure on the hasting link.
>
> Don
>
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