Make my Honda Urban Express Faster pt. 2

We focus our attention on the piston and rings as well as gaskets in that general area. We need full compression to get faster. I put on new rings, hone the cylinder and heat cycle the urban for a later test ride.

[@jasonmajernik7889]

The struggle to get a jug over the rings is real! Awesome video! An old fellow at my local bike shop suggested that after a honing, immediately rinse the jug soapy water and hit all orifices with soapy water and a light bottle brush to remove all oil and metal debris, followed immediately by a good douse of WD-40 in all orifices of the jug. When installing, apply a light coat of 2 stroke oil in the bore. Your method is pretty sound, too! You should have shown getting the wrist clips in. That’s where the swearing starts in my shop.

[@kentuckyyankee]

Clean work! Everything done perfectly. Nice!

[@miguelpagansr6128]

Nicely done sir, when I rebuilt my Honda express engine I did a little polishing by the transfer ports on the engine side and I made the new oil gallery. I noticed that the side that didn’t have the oil passage the bearing from that side was toast, so hopefully that should help with lubrication in the future.

[@Gothguitarist]

There's so much good info here than you my cylinder has one small single scratch barely feel able thanks so much for the help I didn't gap my rings from the piston that came however I noticed no scoring im going to mess with my aitochoke today

[@josephrich6014]

So, you don't use that extra ring spacer on your rebuilds? I've always wondered if I should use it or skip it.

[@jackrutherford-1]

It just depends on the ring gap. If the ring gap is really large, I'll use the ring expander.

[@josephrich6014]

@@jackrutherford-1 ok. Thanks

[@jasonmajernik7889]

I put it on mine. It comes with an OEM ring kit if you order an OEM one. @noped Thursday, I suspect you could be right about this being original.