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Re: [TR] GT6 problems

To: "tom white" <tswhitez123@hotmail.com>, <jimmuller@rcn.com>,
Subject: Re: [TR] GT6 problems
From: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:38:03 -0500
It's the other way around.  Oil on the rings helps seal them, so if the wet 
compression is higher, it's a ring problem.

Karl

> Run the compression test again after squirting some oil in the cylinders 
> just
> before taking the readings.  If the compression come up then the problem 
> is
> valves.  If it doesn't come up the problem is likely rings.
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