The discussion of head gaskets got me going to my '89 300E to get it ready for potential driving soon. I squirted a bit of oil in the cylinders, let them sit for a bit turning engine by hand and with the plugs out have now cranked the engine... no problem, nothing seized. Soooo, I thought might as well test compression as long as the plugs are out. The result is
125, 145, 175, 150, 149, 135 can't remember what 'reasonable' differences might be, in particular I wonder about cylinder #1 I'm going to wait a bit longer just in case the oil hasen't coated the cylinder walls properly yet and I'll try again... don't expect much difference though. Is the engine getting marginal?cheers
ps will still not sell it if repairs are needed. We will NEVER find another car that is as easy and pleasant to work on. I guess you've got to love cars to keep these old ones. BTW to the person trying to decide re selling, never, oh, never listen to your wife. They are all the same in wanting you to get rid of old stuff... gee, I've got a perfectly good 10 year old shirt that I really like which the wife is cosntantly trying to get rid of and I've got to continually rescue it :-)