You have a lot of miles left in that engine if you don't demand perfect
performance.
Try running some marvel mystery oil (about a quart) mixed with your
regular oil in the crankcase for about 1000 miles. (don't overfill the
crank case) It will free up sticky rings, remove sludge from your engine,
clean your lifters. Also run about 8 oz in every tank of gas for that
1000 miles, it will de carbonize the heads, valves, stems, guides.
Then recheck your compression.
You should get more balanced readings unless you have a head gasket leak.
This is a $8.00 fix so give it a try.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:01:08 -0700 Larry Chase <lchase@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
writes:
> Folks,
>
> Not being a gear head ...... would I be safe in assuming that a 2.1
> WBX
> Engine with the following compression readings is in need of a
> rebuild?
>
> 1=130, 2=125, 3=160 and 4=165
>
> Larry Chase
> 85 Westy "RoadHaus"
> Mesa,  AZ
>

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