Subject	Question
Posted by	ztunerz on April 08, 2011 at 11:16 AM
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In Reply To	Compression issues AFTER having car inspected before purchas posted by Jeffblue on April 08, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Message	When you say the plug was covered in oil - was the tip covered or the top part ? If it was the tip its a ring issue or a piston issue or both. If the top has oil its simply oil that has leaked in from the adjacent intake valve cover. Bad compression in 1 cly is NOT due to 120 k or mistiming the motor. Most likely its not a blown head gasket either otherwise you would see bubbles in the cooland and worse case oil in coolant and smoking issues. Turbos do not push oil into the cylinder. If a turbo seal is blown it will smoke for sure and more so on decel. Given the age of the car its possible that the issue happened since the inspection, no way to go back in time to test that. My best guess would be ring wear or worn exhaust valve seats. If compression does not come up by adding oil its valves FYI. It it comes up part way like you state its valves and rings. Harry Formerly yellowzxtt
Follow Ups	Compression issues AFTER having car inspected before purchas - Jeffblue 10:48:58 04/08/11 It does not sound correct to me. - ni[X]it 11:00:06 04/08/11 Yes, i'm definitely paranoid :P - Jeffblue 11:29:49 04/08/11 i don't think you're "paranoid" - vulcanrush 11:45:43 04/08/11 Smoking when off boost eh? I had that happen when #6 - MixManMash 15:32:31 04/08/11 Question - ztunerz 11:16:14 04/08/11 Lol just realized its Jeff Sontag- i was wondering why the - ztunerz 11:17:51 04/08/11 haha yea thats me. Or there's just a lot of black '94s - Jeffblue 11:33:06 04/08/11 120 k doesnt effect the head gasket? phew! - ZiNnYc 11:31:44 04/08/11 120 k service. (n/m) - ztunerz 12:49:10 04/08/11 So what you are saying is: - Jeffblue 11:35:07 04/08/11 Yes (n/m) - ztunerz 12:36:32 04/08/11 and this ring wear or damage to the exhaust valves seats - Jeffblue 12:39:00 04/08/11 Unlikely unless you were detonating the piss out of the - ztunerz 12:43:00 04/08/11 it was on the threads, only on the lower portion, - Jeffblue 12:52:07 04/08/11 It had his tune for like 10,000 miles, and if anything i - Jeffblue 12:55:15 04/08/11 and according to him, his tunes are only slightly tweaked - Jeffblue 12:56:35 04/08/11 K (n/m) - ztunerz 14:08:41 04/08/11 I'm willing to bet that they compression tested it - but - Bernie (NoVA) 11:28:38 04/08/11 That's what i'm thinking - Jeffblue 11:32:10 04/08/11 I'm not sure what recourse you would have at this point. - Bernie (NoVA) 11:58:11 04/08/11 yes, i should have - Jeffblue 12:14:47 04/08/11 Ahahaha! aint that the truth! (n/m) - JayT (Tampa,FL) 11:34:20 04/08/11 Re: Ahahaha! aint that the truth! - Jeffblue 11:37:54 04/08/11 Yeah, but if they didn't give you the results they probably - dogpile 14:19:14 04/08/11 Exactly. They usually write that stuff on the work order (n/m) - CoHPhasor 18:15:05 04/08/11 Lol thats what i told him (n/m) - ztunerz 12:34:36 04/08/11 Compression should have been tested before driving it to LI. (n/m) - ZiNnYc 11:44:00 04/08/11 You might have a valve issue in #6 - sparkie 12:04:31 04/08/11 odds of #6 being totally clean when it was inspected - Jeffblue 12:17:43 04/08/11 Sparkie is right, any oil put in there 200 miles ago would b - zellamay 13:06:13 04/08/11 This exact same thing happened to me. - Draker (Eugene, OR) 13:45:32 04/08/11 Re: Compression issues AFTER having car inspected before purchas - lurker_nz 20:07:06 04/08/11
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