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Possibly they didn't think it needed a rebuild and charged you for it anyway. Some are that desperate. I don't know for fact this happened to you, but is feasible. Once an engine is rebuilt and you break it in properly, it should last for years, not months. Do a compression test on it yourself to see what the compression is up to par. Take the head off after that and look at the cylinder walls for where it has been honed and check for a ridge at the top from ring wear. If that ledge is there, they took you for a ride and made you pay for it. That ridge gets cut out anytime a cylinder is bored and honed. And 7 months isn't long enough to wear all the hone marks from the cylinder walls.
I couldn't have saidi it better than bill although I probably would use a predator or a Holley 850 cfm double pumper with an intake change to a mid rise with a longer runner and have it extrude honed same with heads also stay with port shape example oval to oval square to square and have heads ported polished and honed
4th per inch diameter of bore is the norm for a water cooled engine .so your bore is roughly 3 inches from memory so a ring gap of 12 to 15 th ,check the thickness of the ring in the piston groove as well as up and down movement can and will cause excess oil consumption .give the bore a hone as well with a special honing tool ,not that expensive from a motor factor .
a cilinder you can't just replace, and rarelly is done by one, you have to hone the 'input' but normal you replace all ,, in the case of one you can't do it yourself , since they hone and polish the inside and why replace 1 chilinder?
sounds like a fuse, check EVERY fuse before ruling it out as the problem. anything else is going to the garage and they will charge you if it ends up being a fuse
Do not hone anything. It its just light rust, dont wory about it. If the rust is heavy take stel wool and some penetrating oil (blaster) and try to clean it up.. Just oil the cylinders down when ready to put the head on.
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