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Originally Posted by Rocketdog1
Art - Just running the engine here at the house - didn't go anywhere.
I'll get a compression test done (won't be til next weekend), and update with that information.
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I think I'd get it out and drive it a bit, probably can't really get it very hot just sitting there running. Since it was OK before the exhaust system install, seems to me to be pretty unlikely that anything major in the engine "all of a sudden" broke. Compression testing won't be able to check for bad oil rings... will it?
I had a thought that maybe oil it collecting in the valve chamber and under high vacuum conditions (like idle) it's drawing some oil through the valve guides? Heck I don't even know if a flat-head can do that! Don't you just hate "arm-chair" quarterbacks? I've heard some rumors if you put straight MMO in every orifice (on the car, not anywhere else
) and grease the intake manifold, probably that mystic red stuff, that it will fix everything!
