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Offline clipperjay

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Re: Possible piston rings... decision time
« Reply #20 on: 02 April 2013, 23:43 »
1.3's have higher compression don't they being smaller head and crown? If so 2 and 3 are buggered!

Offline danny_p

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Re: Possible piston rings... decision time
« Reply #21 on: 03 April 2013, 20:44 »
in general anywhere between 180 and 220 iswhat you expect to see but all cyls want to be failrly even.

184, 188, 182,186  for example would be a set of very healthy readings

genral rule of thumb upto  15 psi between any two cyls is expected on an older engine

but when your getting differances of upto 30 psi between any two cyls  it's not healthy something will be developing but should be managable and not cause big problems for the moment but performance and economy will be suffering

40 + PSI  differance means something is broken and is going to start developing ever more rapidly much more loss of compression will cause running problems more than likely that the engine is lame and thirsty

all the VW's have gone bar 1.