Re: "Honing rings"

[Don]

Well, your theory makes some sense. Honing the cylinders rough up the surfaces a bit, creating valleys for oil to hide which helps seal the rings to the cylinders. So, honing the rings would seem to enhance the sealing a bit also for the same reasons. Who knows, it was worth a try and seems to have helped, which is all that matters.
Honing cylinders is a science in its own right, there is so much to know, much more than I have the education to understand, but very interesting indeed…