Ten minutes is an awfully long time. I've been honing cylinders for 45 years and I never honed one that long. About 15 to 30 seconds is usually plenty enough. All you need to do is clean the surface. A wheel cylinder should not be in such bad shape that ten minutes of honing is necessary and, if they are in that bad of shape, it would be better to just replace them. I'm wondering if perhaps your honing stones are just bad.
Did you polish the cylinder core out after honing with something or not? I've been told not doing so will eat up the rubber plunger inside the cylinder. Also, did you use the wire brush on the piston? Wouldn't that get it out of round pretty easily?
Ten minutes is an awfully long time. I've been honing cylinders for 45 years and I never honed one that long. About 15 to 30 seconds is usually plenty enough. All you need to do is clean the surface. A wheel cylinder should not be in such bad shape that ten minutes of honing is necessary and, if they are in that bad of shape, it would be better to just replace them. I'm wondering if perhaps your honing stones are just bad.
ZoneIII 5 months ago
Did you polish the cylinder core out after honing with something or not? I've been told not doing so will eat up the rubber plunger inside the cylinder. Also, did you use the wire brush on the piston? Wouldn't that get it out of round pretty easily?
efhask 1 year ago