Re: Compression question

[Kevin <aventari@cts.com>]

At 11:02 PM 8/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 10:19 PM 8/21/98 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>Just wanted to throw out that my aforementioned Scirocco with 350-360K on it
>>burned no oil when I junked it. Compression rings and oil rings are
>different,
>>so I'm told, so you can have bad compression and still burn no oil.
>
>Yes, but i guess you can make the general statement that oil consumption
>goes up as compression goes down... anyone have a problem with that rule of
>thumb?
>
>Also, is it possible to have very good compression, and be burning oil? Not
>leaking, but burning...

Id say yes, if the rings weren't seated correctly when the engine was
broken in. But compression wouldn't be too good. As in: not very good
commpression, but just plain old good compression.


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