> And I would guess that you would start it up without a squirt of oil in
> the cylinders as well!
No, if it's been sitting for a long time, I would squirt some penetrating oil
in, and wait for it to penetrate down into the rings. In fact I did this just a
couple months ago, fired up a TR3 motor that had been put away wet 30 years ago.
Sounded really sweet, too.
But I didn't bother doing a compression check before I got it running, either.
I still fail to see any use in such a test, unless it shows almost zero pressure
in one or more cylinders. Otherwise, I would just assume a ring or valve was
stuck, and start the engine anyway to see if it came loose on it's own. No
sense in doing a test whose results I intend to ignore !
I still haven't run a compression check on that TR3 motor, and probably won't
until it's first tune-up after I get it running. IMO it's most unlikely that it
could run as well as it has already and still have significant compression
issues. I'll run a compression check just as a baseline to compare against
later, if it does start running poorly. This is not a race motor, I don't care
if it's down a couple percent on power.
Randall
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