Time to rebuild, Opinions / Suggestions Options

[BPGREER]

Well it looks like it may be time to tear my engine apart. McMark was kind enough to point out my lack of compression this weekend. It looks like I have about 110 lbs on 2 cylinders, and 120 on the other 2. The motor has 64,000 miles on it (original), but it did sit for 17 years in a garage by the ocean. A guess is that the cylinder walls have pitted. I am thinking about rebuilding the top end. I realize there are some who disagree with ever taking this approach, but being that the engine has relatively low miles I hope it will work out. If I do choose this method, what would you all suggest in the way of cylinders/pistons sets, etc. I am running the orig Djet, so would going with the 96mm setup still function properly? I'm not trying to stray too far from stock (or to spend too much $$$), but wouldn't mind a little extra power. Thanks for any advice.

Brian

[MecGen]

Hi
Well if you are loosing compression it might be in the rings.
My sugestion is to drop the egine pull the heads and hone/rering, clean up heads.
A low miler, this should freshoin it up lots. Just the heads might work out OK but the gains are probably in the rings. Either do it right or drive it as is and wait for it to fall out.
Good luck with it
Cheers
Joe


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