ralph,
i would reccomend soaking the low reading cylinders with some penetratin oil
of what ever sort you love the most for a few days. my thinking is if you
do not have an incredible carbon build up you might posess a very healthy
engine. healthy meaning some rather impressive pistons or head work
combined with head shaving or block shaving. now, if that is a truth you
might have a few stuck rings on the lower compression cylinders.
have you done a dry and a wet test to see if the two lower reading cylinders
have come up with the oil during the wet test causing a better seal?
of course the chances of it having been horribly tired and serious amounts
of charred oil built up in the combustion chambers is a real possibility as
well.
either way if the engine will start (tune, clean carbs, oil change etc.)
frequently in engines that sit for long periods of time carbon loosens up
and may eject iteslf or if stuck rings may free up through a few repeted
heat cycles of run -warm up-cool off and do this over a few days. either
way it will run but yer gonna need HIGH TEST for that engine to keep from
knocking .
yer gonna love extracting the lower rad hose if it's petrified in place
after all that time.
chuck.
i gotta get ta work!
From Ralph Heacox <marinaratt at hotmail.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Trying to resurrect a '60 bugeye I just acquired. PO stated last run run in
>'84. I'm just trying to get it to run well enough to get it to the paint
>shop. PO before last PO put in a 1098. Turns over fine. BUT...#1 & 2
>cylinders are each giving me compression readings of 180 lbs and 3 & 4 210
>Lbs.
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