INSTRUCTIONS

4-Stroke Engines 3210Q011

Technical Services Issue 8, 09 July 2019

Cylinder liner maintenance

For your information

Distribution to operators and owners of installations Engines concerned

concerned This bulletin is valid for following
WÄRTSILÄ® engine types:
· WÄRTSILÄ 20, 20DF
· WÄRTSILÄ 26
· WÄRTSILÄ 32, 32DF, 32GD
· WÄRTSILÄ 34DF, 34LPG, 34SG
· WÄRTSILÄ 38A, 38B, 38C
· WÄRTSILÄ Vasa 22ABC, 22HF, 22MD
· WÄRTSILÄ Vasa 22/26
· WÄRTSILÄ Vasa 32, 32LN, 32LNGD
· WÄRTSILÄ 25SG
· WÄRTSILÄ Nohab 25, 25DF
· Nohab F10, F20, F30
· WÄRTSILÄ ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S

Reference
Engine block

Introduction
Instructions for honing the cylinder liners.

Validity / Issue
Until further notice. Replacing issue 7
dated 13 March 2019.

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Document history
Issue Date Description SBWT ID
Section “Honing with diamond stones” added on p. 4-5.
7 13-03-2019 W26, W38A, W38B, W38C engine types included 002662
(bulletin supersedes bulletin Oi26/1302/21).
8 09-07-2019 ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S engine types included. 003055

Introduction
Whenever new piston rings are mounted, the cylinder liner must be honed. Normally a
light honing is sufficient. If the honing is done when the cylinder liner remains installed in
the engine block, the crankshaft under the cylinder liner being honed must be protected
by a plastic sheet or similar.

CAUTION:
Prevent honing debris must be prevented from entering the crankshaft or bearings and
falling into the oil sump of the engine.

NOTE:
The honing oil must be clean and of good quality to achieve good honing results. Take
care of proper flow of the honing oil during honing. It is important that the liners are
cleaned thoroughly after the honing as any remaining debris will cause rapid wear of
piston rings and liner.

A. Instructions for honing with ceramic stones

For the honing process, the following instructions are prescribed:
· The honing is carried out by means of “Plateau honing”.
· Only ceramic honing stones with a coarseness of 80 and 400 grit should be used.

ATTENTION:
The 80 grit honing stones should be used for about 20 strokes or until the polished areas
in the cylinder liner are removed. After that, the 400 grit honing stones should be used
for about 30 strokes to give the correct surface finish.

The pitch angle of the honing lines in the cross-hatch pattern should be about 30°, see
Figure 1 on page 3.
· Use honing oil as coolant. A light fuel oil of 2-15 cSt could also be used.
· Clean and dress honing stones if they are clogged up by honing debris, preferably
after every 10 strokes.
· After honing is completed, the liner bore must be carefully cleaned by using a suitable
brush, water (preferably hot) and soap or cleaning fluid. Alternatively, light fuel oil can
be used. Then dry with a cloth and lubricate with engine oil for corrosion protection.
The condition and cleanness of honing oil has big effect for the end result.

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Figure 1, Cross hatch pattern of cylinder liner honing

Table 1, Surface parameters according to EN-ISO-13565-2:1997

Definition Symbol Value

Reduced peak height Rpk [μm] 0.7 max.

Core roughness depth Rk [μm] 1.0 - 2.5

Reduced valley depth Rvk [μm] 2.0 - 4.2

Peak material ratio Mr 1 [%] 10 max.

Valley material ratio Mr 2 [%] 70 - 90

If the roughness measuring gauge cannot measure above mentioned units, the surface
parameters in Table 2 may be used.
Table 2, Alternative surface parameters

Ry = 6-12 μm
Rz = 4-9 μm
Ra = 0.7-1.2 μm
Tp = 60-85% at 2 μm level. Tp reference line at 2% or Ry

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B. Instructions for honing with diamond stones

In order to increase speed and effectivity of the honing process it is also possible to use
medium coarse diamond stones, “Chris-Marine 11373-30-07” with Chris-Marine “HON-
A”, “HON-S” and “DGL” -deglazing tools as a first step. In that case following process
should be used:

NOTE:
Both grit 80 and grit 400 stones MUST be used after diamond stones, plateau honing
with only grit 400 after diamond stones leaves unfavourable flaking to the surface.

Step 1. Honing with diamond stone

1. Mount the diamond stones.
2. Set stone pressure to 3.5 bar / 17.5 Nm.
3. Adjust up/down speed so that a suitable cross pattern is achieved (~30°, see
Figure 1).
4. Perform 55 strokes with ~39 m/min. Check that the entire surface has been
touched by the stones. If not, do additionally 10 strokes and check surface again.
5. Measure the surface roughness. Average Rk value should range from 4 to 7 µm
after diamond stone honing. Surface roughness for a new stone or a turned stone
will be in the upper range whereas a run in stone will be in the lower range.

Step 2. Honing with coarse ceramic stone

1. Dress and mount the coarse grit 80 ceramic stones.
2. Set stone pressure to 5 bar / 25 Nm.
3. Perform 20 strokes. Dress the stones every 10 strokes with a diamond stone.
4. Measure the surface roughness. Average Rk value should be 3-5 µm.
5. If the surface is too coarse, repeat step 2 until Rk reaches the target range.

Step 3. Honing with fine ceramic stone

1. Dress and mount the fine grit 400 ceramic stones.
2. Set stone pressure to 2.5 bar / 12.5 Nm.
3. Perform 10 strokes.
4. Measure the surface roughness. Average Rk value should be just below the
maximum (2.5 µm, see Table 1).
5. If the surface is too coarse, dress the stones and do 10 more strokes until Rk
reaches the target range.
6. If the surface is too fine, go back to step 2 and then reduce the number of strokes
from 10 to 5 in step 3.

Step 4. Cleaning the liner

1. Mount the cleaning brushes.
2. Use water (preferably hot) and soap or cleaning fluid. Alternatively, light fuel oil
can be used.
3. Perform 50 strokes.
4. Dry with a lint free cloth and lubricate with engine oil for corrosion protection.

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Stone pressure
Stone pressure is pneumatically controlled on the DGL machine and mechanically
controlled on the HON-S and HON-A machines. For improved precision on the
mechanically controlled heads, it is recommended to use a torque wrench with adapter.
Table 3 shows how settings are done for these three alternatives:

Table 3, Stone pressure conversion table

DGL HON-S/A HON-S/A

3-armed head 4-armed head 4-armed head
Pressure [Bar] Spring load tens. [-] Torque [Nm]
0 0 0
1 1 5
2 2 10
3 3 15
4 4 20
5 5 25
6 6 30
7 7 35
8 8 40
9 9 45
10 10 50

Vibrations can occur during the cylinder honing process. Such vibrations can create
unfavourable striping and scratches in the liner and should therefore be avoided.
Lowering the stone pressure will normally reduce the vibration level and may be
necessary especially when using new stones. The stone pressure can then be increased
step-wise as the stones and liner surface “run in”.

NOTE:
It is recommended to use exchange stone holders equipped with different grit stones
ready mounted to avoid cracking of ceramic stones and reduce time during switching of
stones.

Diamond stones get dull over time. The cutting performance of the diamond stone can
be restored by turning the stones up-side-down, thereby creating a fresh cutting surface.

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Ordering
Contact your closest Wärtsilä Services Network. When ordering, please specify the
engine serial number(s), part number and version.
NOTE:
For an installation with engines of several “Ref. type” the same tool can be used for all
of them regardless of the different spare part numbers. This means that only one item
from each group (A, B, C, D, E and F) needs to be ordered per installation.

Table 4, Ordering information

Item Description Ref.type Part number Version

A Ceramic honing stone set, includes 8 pcs of stones. Grit 80.
W20, 22, 22/26 842 002 0001
W26 8100026 0001
32, W32, W34 800 253 0001
W38A, W38B, W38C 8100010 0001
F10, F20, F30, W25SG, WN25, WN25DF 2838-001 0001
ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S 9421.14 0001
B Ceramic honing stone set, includes 8 pcs of stones. Grit 400
W20, 22, 22/26 842 003 0001
W26 8100027 0001
32, W32, W34 800 337 0001
W38A, W38B, W38C 8100011 0001
F10, F20, F30, W25SG, WN25, WN25DF 2838-002 0001
ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S 9421.15 0001
C Diamond honing stone set, includes 4 pieces of stones. Medium coarse
W20, 22, 22/26 842 004 0001
W26 8100028 0001
32, W32, W34 800 338 0001
W38A, W38B, W38C 8100012 0001
F10, F20, F30, W25SG, WN25, WN25DF 2838-003 0001
ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S 9421.16 0001
D Torque wrench 10-50 Nm
W20, 22, 22/26, 32, W32, W34 820 025 0001
W26 8100029 0001
W38A, W38B, W38C 8100013 0001
F10, F20, F30, W25SG, WN25, WN25DF 2838-004 0001
ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S 9421.17 0001
E Adapter for torque wrench, HON-S/A
W20, 22, 22/26, 32, W32, W34 806 057 0001
W26 8100030 0001
W38A, W38B, W38C 8100014 0001
F10, F20, F30, W25SG, WN25, WN25DF 2838-005 0001
ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S 9421.18 0001
F Cleaning brush set, includes 4 pieces of brushes
W20, 22, 22/26, 32, W32, W34 842 005 0001
W26 8900041 0001
W38A, W38B, W38C 8900018 0001
F10, F20, F30 9197801500-008c 0001
W25SG, WN25, WN25DF 9193932800-009c 0001
ZA40, ZA40S, ZA50S 9421.19 0001

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Contacts
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For services, spare parts and/or tools, please contact your nearest Wärtsilä
representative or the Customer Support Centre (CSC):
www.wartsila.com/csc

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