Adrian,
sorry to tell you but I used to own a '66 Caddy (the chop-top on my web
page) that had been sitting for 7 years. It had great compression but was
a smoke machine nevertheless. The compression rings were fine but the oil
rings were stuck in the grooves from old hardened oil.
We had to re-ring it in the end. That fixed it.
Ulix
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
> I saw evidence that indeed, oil was blowing out the dipstick (but the
> cardboard I put under the car last night revealed multiple leaks this
> morning!). My compression test showed high compression across all the
> cylinders, and after running, the compressions were all within +-2 pounds
> of each other (right at 120).
>
> My thoughts are that either I have a bad oil ring or that the oil is too
> thin. I hope that the oil is just too thin. I need to change it again
> anyway, as I'm sure there's a lot of crud building up in it. The spark
> plugs were wet (that was before I did my fuel system maintenance) and I
> can't remember if it was oil or gas. Probably oil, since that's more
> expensive to repair than too much gas. Some higher force just doesn't
> want me driving a Midget. ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> adrian
>
> "William M. Gilroy" wrote:
>
> > Reminds me of my free 77 Midget. My car ran real badly and one
> > of the problems turned out to be the dizzy was really worn. Frank C.
> > was kind enough to swap my worn dizzy with one that was in much better
> > shape. Then I got the engine better tuned, timed etc. What happened
> > next was when the car ran closer to spec. and when I revved it above
> > 2K I had so much blow by that the oil would spurt out of the
> > dipstick. It would land on the exhaust pipe and burn off in a small
> > cloud. A compression test revealed that the following number:
> > 1 = 110 PSI, 2 = 40 PSI, 3 = 60 PSI and 4 = 160 PSI.
> >
> > So I replaced the engine with another one. Still have to rebuild
> > the original engine, but time is very tight. So a compression test
> > might give you some insight, but if the oil is coming out the dipstick
> > I can think of two things: bad rings or overfilled the oil.
> >
> > The car also takes 20W-50.
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Bill
> > E-mail: wmgilroy@lucent.com
>
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