Background on the patient, this is my 1996 80 series who was a one owner rig before I bought it. I acquired it with 245k on the dash and have driven it to 300k since in 3 years. Fun fact, a family friends son who was an NFL player back in 95 bought it off of his NFL bonus check. This is my daily and the reason I decided to do a compression test is she is eating oil by the quart, about every 600-800 miles. I have quite a bit of detonation at just about all speeds at light throttle. (beans in a can sound) Below are my compression results. I daily this rig and am seeing how serious of a rebuild I need to do. Head refresh or bottom end as well. I have everything I need to do a leak down test focusing on cylinder 3. Not sure how I two interpret 1-3 then 3-6 having such a large difference. Not meeting the all above 171 and no more than 14 psi between each. She drives pretty well other than sometimes being bogged down by the A/C being on and the the pinging.
Done on a warm engine, T1 is the first test, T1 Wet is a teaspoon of oil and T2 wet was the second. Thank you, all!
Done on a warm engine, T1 is the first test, T1 Wet is a teaspoon of oil and T2 wet was the second. Thank you, all!
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