wrote:
: I've always felt that a moderately (say 50/80)low compression number
: without any other obvious cylinder trauma isn't automatically a reason
: to pull a jug, at least not without a later recheck.

If the compression is that low (basically, anything under 70/80), there's a
definitive REASON for it... leaking valves or leaking rings. Neither one is a good
thing, but the valves in particular are a very bad thing. Rings may be gunked up or
never seated, but there's something wrong if compression is that low.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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