BogusSVO
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Do a leak down test. It will tell you more than a basic compression test
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PTW will have minimal affect on blow by. Same with ring gap. I gap rings more than you do and have good compression and leak down numbers.
You may have chewed the rings up if the hone was the wrong grit for the rings.
That or you could have over heated and lost tension in the rings.
This ^^^ and meaning not that the coolant overheated, but rather that you got the rings too hot and killed the spring tension in them.PTW will have minimal affect on blow by. Same with ring gap. I gap rings more than you do and have good compression and leak down numbers.
You may have chewed the rings up if the hone was the wrong grit for the rings.
That or you could have over heated and lost tension in the rings.