Yeah Ken, the dipstick was continually being pushed out of the tube about an inch or so. I would push it down in and then later on find it up again after running the engine. In the beginning I thought it was vibrating out but then I realized it was being blown out by compression.

Pat, you are right, I think I'll pull the other head since I am this far along and remove all the valves and clean up the chambers and valve faces. I think I have a combination of things going on. I think perhaps all the rings were leaking a little due to the cylinders being washed, and that might have been the compression in the pan. Then I think the worst part of the compression loss was through the valves in that cylinder. I was just assuming there was some major break in the piston because I thought all the compression was going down the rings. But I bet that the valves were my real culprits.

I don't want to get into having a valve job done on these heads right now as I want to keep concentrating on the Ford engine I'm building. I just want to get the T back drivable and try to get a few more miles out of it before I do a proper rebuild or maybe build a different engine altogether for it. I think if I clean up the valves and run a shock treatment of Ring Free through it for a few tanks of gas, plus lean down my fuel mixture, I might be able to accomplish that.

Don