Low compression, pics of my piston

peonpete · 09-09-2015, 06:40 PM

Thanks for the reply. So far I have ordered a new piston + rings and new cylinder. I did notice when taking the engine apart, that the gasket that goes ontop of the cylinder and connects to the rubber riser for the air intake manifold was pretty much destroyed. I think that might be why air was getting into the engine. Other than that issue, there is a small amount of oil getting into the CVT and im not sure how to fix that. Its not a huge amount of oil [id say 6 tablespoons worth per month] but its still a leak.

As far as the piston goes, I looked at it more and the middle ring on it was siezed up. It looks like carbon got in there and jammed it when it ran low on oil. Im going to try adding a small amount of sea-foam for now on when i fill up the tank and hopefully that will prevent that in the future [aswell as fixing leaks and adding oil obviously].

09-09-2015, 06:40 PM	#4
peonpete Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 13	Thanks for the reply. So far I have ordered a new piston + rings and new cylinder. I did notice when taking the engine apart, that the gasket that goes ontop of the cylinder and connects to the rubber riser for the air intake manifold was pretty much destroyed. I think that might be why air was getting into the engine. Other than that issue, there is a small amount of oil getting into the CVT and im not sure how to fix that. Its not a huge amount of oil [id say 6 tablespoons worth per month] but its still a leak. As far as the piston goes, I looked at it more and the middle ring on it was siezed up. It looks like carbon got in there and jammed it when it ran low on oil. Im going to try adding a small amount of sea-foam for now on when i fill up the tank and hopefully that will prevent that in the future [aswell as fixing leaks and adding oil obviously].
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