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Re: How to test oil control rings?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 10/16/2001

The very old and very low-tech "wet and dry compression test" will tell about as much about the oil rings as anything I've seen. Normal engine condition wet/dry compression will show about 25 psi higher with the wet test than the dry test shows. On an engine w... Login to read more.