Re: Naive question re: reboring cylinders

[Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>]

In message <01H721UJEHPK8Y4YD1@asu.edu> you write:
>If you have a 40 thou overbore on your cylinders, do they remove 40 thou
>from the diameter (= bore of the engine) or from the radius (half of the bore
>distance) of the cylinder?

I don't have an authoritative answer, but I always assumed that it was
the diameter.  The idea is measure cylinder, bore it out, remeasure and the 
difference of the measurements should be 0.040 (modulo existing wear, etc.)

  --berry