Help please!!! bad rings?
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Help please!!! bad rings?
First drive after winter noticed car not running right. Changed plugs/ wires, still ran crappy. Did compression test and ended up with 162 lbs in all but 1 cylinder. 1 was at 120 lbs. Squirts oil in plug hole and it jumped to normal. Are my rings bad ? Also seemed to have a decent amount of oil on sparkplug threads. Maybe bad valve seals? Why would this happen on only 1 cylinder after car ran fine at end of last year. Car was started every week in winter. Any suggestion or other test I can do in my own garage? How hard to remove motor from car? Thanks. Btw mods are in sig.
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Did you do a HOT compression test by warming the engine up all the way? Valve seal would give oil in the cylinder at startup but usually not enough to make a difference after it warms up. Could have a combo of valve seal and valve/seat sealing issue. Could be rings, but could be other things.
I don't see a sig, BTW.
I don't see a sig, BTW.
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You need to do a leak down test on that cylinder, it will tell you where the compression is leaking off to. Probably broken rings or piston broken ring lands. What number cylinder is it? 7&8 are notorious for this happening.
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Sorry guys for taking so long. I took your advice and re did the compression on the motor while at a operating temp with basically the same results. Close to 160 on all but the 1 cylinder. Cylinder 3 was at 120. I also discovered smoke or steam comming out of oil dip stick. Performed head gasket leak test, and results seem to show no leak. Oil looks fine. I will be doing a leakdown test as soon as my neighbor lets me borrow the tester. Dont wanna spent $100 plus and use it 1 time, and dont trust a harbor freight tester. Any ideas on what it may be? Any other possible fixes? If I have to do rings is there any way to do them while motor is still in car? Can oil pan be taken off? May be a dumb question but i I've never had to take my motor out and not looking forward to doing it.thanks
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Sorry guys for taking so long. I took your advice and re did the compression on the motor while at a operating temp with basically the same results. Close to 160 on all but the 1 cylinder. Cylinder 3 was at 120. I also discovered smoke or steam comming out of oil dip stick. Performed head gasket leak test, and results seem to show no leak. Oil looks fine. I will be doing a leakdown test as soon as my neighbor lets me borrow the tester. Dont wanna spent $100 plus and use it 1 time, and dont trust a harbor freight tester. Any ideas on what it may be? Any other possible fixes? If I have to do rings is there any way to do them while motor is still in car? Can oil pan be taken off? May be a dumb question but i I've never had to take my motor out and not looking forward to doing it.thanks
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I know that 120 is significantly Lower than the others but I had heard that above 100 is still good. Is this true or is 120 way too low considering what the others are at?