On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 SyncroHead@aol.com wrote:

> I'd like to rebuild the old cylinders and keep them as spares.  The bore of
> all of the cylinders is very smooth and shows no signs of pitting.
> [snip]
> My question is about honing the cylinders.  Since they are smooth inside,
> does this realy need to be done?  I'm a bit worried about taking a cylinder
> with a nice smooth bore and screwing it up with a hone.

I'm not a professional mechanic, and this is free advice (maybe worth 
every penny) but over the years I've rebuilt several different hydraulic 
cylinders with smooth bores, such as you describe, and I've never had a 
problem with any of them.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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