Maybe opening up a can of worms here, like asking the best oil, best battery, or best tires. Those can be personal but I feel MC honing should be answered by science. What is actually best to allow new seals to properly seat. Understanding that pits and corrosion are not removable or shouldn’t be removed with a hone due to the chances of increasing bore to much. Let start the debate with that as a given.
I don’t know if the MC’s on the kz have inserts or some how they change the hardness of the aluminum at the bore, so that the first question. Second, to many moons ago when we would rebuild wheel cylinders we always ran a hone thru them... my whole career I have been told to hone master cylinders and wheel cylinders to break the glaze to give the new parts a nice surface to seat into. Similar with honing engine cylinders.
That being said I’ve read here that some recommend honing, where others say no... the MC’s we have are the same vintage as when we were taught to hone. What has or did change that some here are saying not to hone?
I ask because I have a front that I want to rebuild for my KZ900 project. Aslo in full disclosure I have rebuilt 3 MC’s. Not one has leaked or lost pressure from sitting... On all of them I have run the matching size ball hone in them and I’ve used 320 grit hone with brake fluid as a lubricant.
What say you?