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Originally Posted by Black798
After you do all 6 cylinders put a few drops of oil in a couple cylinders and see if the compression comes up significantly that will tell you if your piston rings are worn in that cylinder.
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From a Motorcycle perspective (smaller cylinders, higher compression) ~ the oil-in-cylinder thing has been thoroughly debunked as it simply decreases compression space and will raise readings in all but the absolute worse of cases. Even doing it sparingly, a half-second of "fogger" spray, is enough to change results on "good" cylinders. Remember, you'd adding a non-compressible liquid into a sealed chamber.
Tested this by doing it back to back with an honest leak-down setup on the same engine/cylinders. Didn't matter who was doing the test, what engine (though they were all motorcycle), or where in the world they were located.
Bigger cylinders will probably mean less impact, but it's not really much of a test. I guess if you were EXACT with the oil in every cylinder and saw a larger percentage increase in one... Not going Hurt anything though, just don't use those results to justify anything more than getting the Right tool (leakdown tester).
OP, do have your battery on a charger while doing this. You'll only need to crank a couple seconds per cylinder, but it's still incredibly taxing on the battery and every little bit helps.
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