Brake cylinder hone question

[36tudordeluxe]

Installing knew bushings in my steering gear box and am going to use brake cylinder hone, do I run the hone dry in the bushings?

[billwill]

i would use some lite cutting oil

[36tudordeluxe]

Originally Posted by billwill

i would use some lite cutting oil

Thanks Bill, will use cutting oil.

[jake197000]

if you have a parts washer just do it in there youll have a constant flow of fluid to wash away the grit.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by jake197000

if you have a parts washer just do it in there youll have a constant flow of fluid to wash away the grit.

x2.

[trainguy]

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Using a brake cyl hone to size a hole is not what they are intended for.They will tend to bell mouth the hole and not correct any out of roundness.A good adjustable reamer would be a better choice.Phil

[Kurt in NJ]

This brake cylinder hone does a good job on sector housings, the little 3 arm wheel cylinder ones used to clean up an already round hole won't do a good job on a secter housing with new bushings---how do you keep the alignment of the 2 bushings with each other, or make a round hole, you may be able to make the hole big enough to fit the secter in, but there won't be a good long lasting fit---and any oil grooves will bounce the stones ---some venders sell truck kingpin bushings for sector bushings ---i guess a wheel cyl "hone" is ok for them, they don't fit correct, just taking a few of the high spots off them will allow the secter to fit into the hole, but the ones I tried has less than a 25% contact surface and will leak and wear loose quick.

For how you are proposing to do it most anything will work for lube---soapy water, brake fluid, cooking oil, butter, trans fluid, parts washer, atf, used motor oil---

[Mart]

Wouldn't you do better just to buy a reamer of the right size? I bought a couple of real nice ones for not much money. There's always somewhere clearing out engineering tools. I got mine off ebay.

Mart.

[Gary Tosel]

I agree that a hone works the best to size brass bushings that can get slightly deformed when pressed in place. Same for king pin bushings that need to be line bored from one sleeve to the other.

If you have bushings in the old steering box it must not be for 36 Ford, correct? One year only 1936 Ford steering box had needle bearings and not bushings.

Just saying.

Thanks

[Pete]

Originally Posted by trainguy

Using a brake cyl hone to size a hole is not what they are intended for.They will tend to bell mouth the hole and not correct any out of roundness.A good adjustable reamer would be a better choice.Phil

A rigid brake cylinder hone is about the only practical way to get a round and straight hole.
If you were thinking of the spring loaded glaze breakers, then yes, that is not the right tool for the job.

A reamer is a farmer fix.

[ford3]

a reamer is step one the hone is the final step for bushing finishing

[Karl Wolf]

Find a machine shop with a Sunnen hone, you will absolutely be doing that with the second set of bushings!! There is a very little amount of material to remove (in MY steering box bushings) to get a good fit... I recommend an almost tight fit as the parts will wear in soon enough.

As a young man I tried things similar to what you're talking about and it didn't work for me. Later in life in the shop, I had a Sunnen machine, it's the best way to go. One can achieve a better fit than the proper reamer can... Buying a reamer or even finding one for that application will be expensive and or hard.

Karl