Reasons for rings not "Seating"

[Goat Blower]

Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX

And Steve you bring up a new term What is 45 Degree hone? I deglazed the cylinder with a plate style hone on the cylinder that had the bad piston.

Every ring manufacturer has a specific hone pattern, but for the guy doing a hone at home, it's best to have approximately a 45 degree cross hatch pattern. I prefer the bottle brush hone since it makes the patterns easily with a variable speed drill on slow moving up the down the cylinder pretty quickly to get the 45 degree pattern.