I'm gonna hone my B18A1 for a fresh rebuild on sunday and was wondering what you guys have used for lubricant for honing the cylinders? As well as do I need to Ridge Reem the tops of the cylinders? This will be my first time honing a block and I borrowed a Ball Honer that goes from 3 -3 1/4 or 3 1/2 in. Which should work fine seeing as how an 81mm bore is around 3.1-3.2 in. Thanks alot guys for all the help. Any tips or tricks that you can offer are more than welcome!

 

I've heard not to use WD-40. Something about it being a solvent?
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Use plenty of lube and go in a rythmitic up and down motion kinda like masturbation. Yeah there's something about WD-40 is a solvent but I've used it plenty of times for honing and it never hurt anything

 

So each cylinder should take about 15 seconds? :P
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Actually, 15 seconds would probably be fine. You're suppose to use honing oil. Stp mixed with motor oil will work. Go relatively quickly so that you get a nice crosshatch pattern.

 

so then you guys think just some light weight oil like 5w-10 would work nicely? possibly even synthetic's? the guy I borowed the tools from said to use like oil with kerosene but he is a V8 junkie and used to working with cast IRON and I thought it could F something up! So then I just want to do it for about 10-15 seconds just enough to take off the glaze? Thanks alot guys I appreciate all the help

 

what grit homer should I use like i said I am using a ball honer. Thanks

 

A higher grit, like 500, somewhere around there