[NJscott]

Is cylinder honing just a cheaper less precise version of boring?

[MJMPC]

No honning is for 1. deglasing a cyclinder 2. get the right profile on the walls so your rings seat right .


Some machine shops will hone the last couple thou to get the right ring gap .

[1992 renagade]

Sounds like you hydro locked the engine when it was under water. I bet when you tear it down you find a bent connecting rod or a broken piston and bent valves. Engines don't like to compress water and some thing has to give.

[NJscott]

pretty sure its not hydrolocked. The top end stayed pretty far out of the water and i drove her most of the way back to camp that day.