Hi all,

I bought a compression tester last week and I was very curious to test it out yesterday on my 2 bricks engines. I own 2 N/A's: a '95 and a '96. We bought them both second hand: 77K miles for the '95 and 59K for the '96. Now the '95 is at 127k and the '96 is at 90k. I always found the '95 less powerfull and less economical on fuel than my '96 since the beginning thinking that it was a different year engine.(both B5254S engines)
The compression is around 180 lbs average +/- 4lbs on all cylinders on the '96 and only ....... 125 lbs average +/- 2lbs on all cylinders on the '95. A friend of mine told me to drop a little bit of oil inside each cylinders on the '95 and do the same test again and the compression immediately jumped to 180 lbs..... He told me that the pistons and rings (or at least the rings) needs to be changed.

Question: Is it "normal" having now only 125 lbs of compression at 127K miles?

Thanks
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Jack