Should I hone cylinder after removing piston?

i just finished pulling the engine apart on my F-12 to fix a sleeve seal leak. Not sure why it was leaking as sleeves and seals were installed new right at a year ago. Everything looked perfect. No pitting on the sleeve and o-ring looked perfect. I probably have around 50 hours or better on the rebuild. What would you guys suggest on honing the cylinder before reassembling everything? I've seen where some guys suggest replacing rings if the piston is ever removed and also honing.
 
(quoted from post at 13:06:15 09/27/15) i just finished pulling the engine apart on my F-12 to fix a sleeve seal leak. Not sure why it was leaking as sleeves and seals were installed new right at a year ago. Everything looked perfect. No pitting on the sleeve and o-ring looked perfect. I probably have around 50 hours or better on the rebuild. What would you guys suggest on honing the cylinder before reassembling everything? I've seen where some guys suggest replacing rings if the piston is ever removed and also honing.

50 hours is not enough to remove the original honing marks. I think I would just put it back together.
 
If you still have it out, use high temp red silicone as the lubricant to install it. First I use use a very light coat on the O ring to hold it in the groove. Then wipe a light coat around the bottom of the sleeve and push it in. Don't take very much, and leaves a nice bead in the water jacket. Let it sit for at least a day before adding water, it will never leak again.
 
(quoted from post at 22:37:07 09/27/15) If you still have it out, use high temp red silicone as the lubricant to install it. First I use use a very light coat on the O ring to hold it in the groove. Then wipe a light coat around the bottom of the sleeve and push it in. Don't take very much, and leaves a nice bead in the water jacket. Let it sit for at least a day before adding water, it will never leak again.

Thanks 36F30. That's exactly what I ended up doing. I dried out the water jacket best I could. Cleaned it up with a wire brush and some emery cloth. Installed new o-rings with high temp RTV and hoped for the best! I let it cure for a day then filled the block up and everything has been dry for a couple days. I should be getting a new head gasket among other things from Rice tomorrow. If all goes well I should have it up and running Monday or Tuesday night.

I just did install the piston and came back inside searching for my manual. Can't remember torque specs on the rods!
 
I don't see that running a hone in there for 2 minutes or less will do any harm. Anytime that I have a piston out, I run the hone
through the cylinder.
 
exactly - I'd just slap it back together without thinking twice about it.

Maybe would do it if for some reason you were putting new rings in though, but I doubt that's the
case.
 

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