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compression test analysis help #8715 01/26/2005 6:01 AM
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 55 Saratoga, Ca L LT Member
LT Member L Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 55 Saratoga, Ca	I bought a '59 Apache in December. It has a mostly stock 283 V8 with about 60k miles on a rebuild. I gave it a tuneup and checked the compression, but I don't know what these results mean. Can one of you engine experts analyze this? Cyl reading 1 155 3 145 5 145 7 120 2 155 4 110 6 110 8 145

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compression test analysis help	LT	01/26/2005 6:01 AM
Re: compression test analysis help	J.H.Proffit	01/26/2005 6:10 AM
Re: compression test analysis help	LT	01/26/2005 6:33 AM
Re: compression test analysis help	J.H.Proffit	01/26/2005 6:52 AM
Re: compression test analysis help	Chevyman	01/26/2005 11:24 AM
Re: compression test analysis help	LT	01/27/2005 5:11 AM

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