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1. low compression (Scotty Paisley) (score: 1): Author: Lewis Dunbar Dove <mfldd@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>; Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 09:02:50 -0600 (CST); IMHO, your low compression readings show that the rings have not seated properly. I have always heard that you check compression before and after adding oil to the cylinders so that you can tell the; /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00551.html (8,370 bytes)
2. Re: low compression (Scotty Paisley) (score: 1): Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 10:42:21 -0500 (EST); I don't think your suggestion that straight 30 weight be substituted for multiviscosity oil for 1000 miles will result in engine damage, but I have doubts about its helping much. The rebuild was 3 ye; /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00552.html (8,924 bytes)
3. low compression (Scotty Paisley) (score: 1): Author: Lewis Dunbar Dove <mfldd@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>; Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 11:34:46 -0600 (CST); I agree with your analysis., but I would also like to add one more possibility. Perhaps the engine was eith assembled using one of those magical teflon or molybdenum-based additives or one of these; /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00558.html (7,460 bytes)
4. Re: low compression (Scotty Paisley) (score: 1): Author: paisley@boulder.nist.gov (Scott W. Paisley 303-497-7691); Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 10:53:44 MST; Agreed. I have put over 10,000 miles on this engine. It may have had this low compression on all those miles, hard to say. I did "break it in" for 500 miles with 30WT, and then run 10W40 Castrol for; /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00561.html (9,760 bytes)
5. Re: low compression (Scotty Paisley) (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <feold@umd5.umd.edu>; Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 14:14:16 -0500 (EST); At cranking speed (as when doing a compression check) ample air can flow past the pistons, since they never completely close off the air flow. Ditto the throttle butterflies. When they are "closed"; /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00563.html (8,601 bytes)

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