do I need rebuilt?
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do I need rebuilt?
I just bought a '76 RV with a 460. Everything looked good when checking it out before buying and it ran pretty strong. After 3 hours driving home I noticed oil dripping. Found oil in the air filter housing. Did a compression test today and found this: 100 70 105 105 105 100 90 115. Do these numbers seem really low and does this mean I need to rebuild? I have never done a rebuild before and don't know if I could. I usually do my own work, even when I don't know how. I just get advice from others and keep trying until I get it right. What should I do?
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From: iowa
Yeah those numbers are too spread out, they should be a lot closer than that. I would say it's time to go in for rebuilding it most likely. But out of curiosity, you have basically 2 cyulinders that are way down that made me say that, do they by any chance happen to be side by side and you just didn't write them down that way? How many miles are on it? If not to many you might get away with having the cylinders honed and installing new rings, bearings, oil pump, and having hte heads done.
