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Subject:Re: Oil dipstick pushed out of the tube
From:Allan Streib
Date:Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:36:17 -0400

I don't really know the mileage on the engine.  The odometer, which
works, shows 244K miles.  But, when I bought the van the seller said the
engine was not original.

Allan

Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> writes:

> leak down test too, might be a little more useful than a compression test.
> I don't regard 'compression' and 'oil control' to be 100 % related.
> You can have pretty good compression in a compression sometimes, yet not
> have great oil control,
> 'specially on a many-miles engine.
> How many miles on the pistons/barrels/rings, anyway, on this one ?

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