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Yeah. Well. When they are driven, those things happen.
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Curious if these photos tell you anything about my car.
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I did another compression test yesterday, this time after warming up the engine to temperature. Also, I only used 1 pump of oil into each cylinder for the wet test.
dry: 158/160/156/156
wet: 168/165/162/165
so, that's a 2.5% variance between cylinders and a 3-6% variance dry to wet.
dry: 158/160/156/156
wet: 168/165/162/165
so, that's a 2.5% variance between cylinders and a 3-6% variance dry to wet.
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Yeah, good. Less oil (see what I mean?) and lower end seems tight enough.
Guides are still wet, on your original photo, so you decide.
If you aren't leaving clouds of blue smoke at the bottom of a long grade, not fouling plugs, and not using significant amounts of oil, leave it.
We used to have a fellow in these forums who constantly bragged on running with a flat crank, so you can get away with a lot of stuff....like cams 30 crank degrees advanced, pistons hitting valves for 8 years at least, Mercedes carburettors, brazen breaker plate in distributor....that kind of stuff.
Guides are still wet, on your original photo, so you decide.
If you aren't leaving clouds of blue smoke at the bottom of a long grade, not fouling plugs, and not using significant amounts of oil, leave it.
We used to have a fellow in these forums who constantly bragged on running with a flat crank, so you can get away with a lot of stuff....like cams 30 crank degrees advanced, pistons hitting valves for 8 years at least, Mercedes carburettors, brazen breaker plate in distributor....that kind of stuff.