I've seen it done on TV(Trucks...shadup). So does anyone know I might be able to find a brush/wheel/whatever it is to home cylinders at home?

The way I've seen it done was just on an electric drill to simply clean up the cylinder walls. I'm comtemplating this because I don't have the ability to actually pull the block from my truck, but would still like to replace the rings and bearings and figure if the pistons are going to be out anyways, why not.

 

You can usually do the loan a tool at AutoZone to get the one with the three wings that have a honing stone on each wing. Those attach to a drill. I have used those before. I was told by an old timer one time that he felt the one that have the individual stones and kind of look like a tree work better.

Last engine I rebuilt was in my old 72 Datsun 240z. 320k miles and it still had the factory crosshatching on the bores. Man those cars would run forever.

 

If your just re-ringing all you need is a deglazing hone. It has maybe 50-100 wires on it with a round stone on the end of each wire. I would advise against doing this in the truck. If you can't take the crank out then you will never get it as clean (all the metal out) as you need. I have know several people to try this and only one person succeeded. It's really not a good idea if your going to spend all that money to re-ring. Just take the block out and have it last another 200k miles.

 

Oh, do not use the 3 stone hone. That is a rigid hole and will resize your cylinder walls. All you need is the deglazing hone I mentioned before.

 

^ if your not gonna pull it, then do everything to prevent crap from getting into the bearings. clean it then clean it again...

or you will find the way to pull the motor

 

I used a 3 stone hone and re ringed. I just blew it out with air, wiped off the journals on the crank and let the filter clean anything else out. I have about 5k on the rebuild with not one problem. Engines have metals shavings all the time when there new anyways.