wheaters
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I agree about separate cylinder sleeves/liners. We use them in our little Reliant engines (ours are wet liners in an aluminium block) and you can still buy them decades later so you can keep an engine going indefinitely. With flame sprayed coated cylinders, if a liner goes out of tolerance, I suspect you scrap the block and hope you can find another, which is headed towards built in obsolescence.
I've some experience of this issue; some years ago we bought a little Honda NSR125 motorbike for my son. It had issues which turned out to be a cylinder fault. They can't be rebored because the bore is coated. New cylinder, very expensive!
I've some experience of this issue; some years ago we bought a little Honda NSR125 motorbike for my son. It had issues which turned out to be a cylinder fault. They can't be rebored because the bore is coated. New cylinder, very expensive!