I am freshening my motor this winter and putting in new rings. I don't have honing oil. Can I use some other oil?
Thanks Mike

Transmission fluid.

I've used diesel fuel, kerosene or cleaning solvent with a little oil in it to hone in a garden sprayer

Transmission fluid.

Kerosene, cleans better ( what it's supposed to do) and let's the stone cut good, and not lubricate the wall.

What are you using for a hone, I have 2-5 gallon jugs of lightly used Goodson honing oil for sale in PA but if you're just deglazing a block one time it might not be worth your trouble.

hand honing I think is best with tranny fluid cut 50 % with mineral spirits. Thins the fluid for spraying with a hand sprayer bottle, and washes the cylinder and stones better. In fact I keep a bottle around all the time and use it for all kinds of stuff. Just used it Fri. while machining some aluminum, and I have a bottle of alumi-cut sitting on the shelf.

I am using a "Flex-Hone". Has a whole bunch of little black balls on it.
Instructions says to not use any solvent!
Used a Mixture of Transmission fluid and WD-40(or as my wife calls it, DW-30!). Worked great. Was just a deglazing hone for new rings so a quick 20 seconds on each cylinder did the trick.
Thanks for the reply's.
Mike

I use the BRM flexhone & I used what it said on the box. Why does the wife say DW30?

" Why does the wife say DW30? "

Same reason I call of her shoes,makeup and jewelry by the wrong names I guess!!! LOL

Mike

You may inform her that WD is for Water Dispersent so it is critical that the letters are in the right order & that the inventor (of it) tried 39 different chemical combinations before being comfortable with/& settling on the 40th try. I use it alot mainly cuz it is handy/thin/sprayable but alot of mechanics dont think very highly of it.

I've always just used WD-40 when doing a quick "dingleberry" deglaze/hone. Then wipe down w/ ATF.

When a shop hones the bore it is only about 6 passes on the bore so I don't know if any extra will harm things.

I've always used ATF.

I quit using any of the dingleberry hones 30+ years ago when I started using moly coated top rings per the feed back from all the major ring companies
If your trying to do a quick cheap rebuild on the motor to flip a car and your going to use the cheapest cast iron rebuilder ring sets you can get then your using the proper honing tool needed to do that
If you want to help make the motor better by straightening the bore taper up and making the cylinders round when honing it then take it to a shop that has a good honing machine or buy a professional hand held hone like Snap On or a adjustable Lisle and use it with a good honing plate and use the same head gasket your going to use on that motor

Good points Cab ,but the motor only has 150 passes on it since bored and I am just replacing the rings and bearings since I have it apart from a cam pin breaking off and going thru the motor.
Thanks Mike

FWIW...my hemi was originally built in 2006. Since then I've re-ringed it twice (moly rings) and used a "dingleberry" hone both times. It will still give me timeslips like it did when it was fresh. Best MPH ever on motor in 2007 was 140.4 mph in good air. The last time I ran the car on motor in good air, it went 140.2 mph after the two previously mentioned freshen ups (8 years later).
Not saying this type of hone is best, it certainly isn't, but it sure aint all that bad either.

I liked mineral spirits beter than trans fluid, to me it seemed to cut faster and seemed like it kept the stones from loading up.