IMHO your figures are well within for that for a perfectly sound motor.
What rate of consumption?
PaulH.
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Cook <litfuse@triton.net>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 04 May 1999 23:37
Subject: compression readings
>Well, my oil usage started upward, so I opened the compression tester I
>bought long ago and gave it a go: 145, 160, 160, 165. (early 70's
>vintage motor).
>After a squirt of oil in #1, it came up to 150. I know this has been
>discussed in the past, and if I remember right, I'd say maybe the rings
>in #1, maybe a valve problem. Plugs looked fine and indistinguishable
>from each other. The motor is factory rebuilt 10,000 miles ago. What
>is my next step?
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