low compression?

[Gottolovem]

I just did a compression check on "rusty" the car i got from the bay area.
And its under 100 all across with #2 at 25 the car dosent smoke there is no fuel in the oil either
obviously Its way low on power but i drove it through the mountians 100 miles and am curious if it will make another 800 miles to another owner for its parts.
Could the head be leaking causing these low numbers?

[irowiki]

This is the engine that supposedly has 110k miles?

[Gottolovem]

One and the same i am goung to look under valve cover tommrow if it's still light out.
I don't understand why it dosen't smoke the pressure has to go somewhere when it's not burning oil?

[Petros]

often when engines sit around and not driven much the rings get gummed up and stuck, so they can not seal properly. Often soaking in Seafoam helps free them up. Seafoam was in fact invented to free gummed up rings for outboard motors for fishing boats that sit around all winter not being run, and the rings stick and fail to seal properly.

amazing it actually runs with that low of compression. not likely it is caused by a bad head gasket, you would be loosing coolant or oil or both, or mixing both, if the head gasket was bad.

If it runs, and you keep oil in it, it likely would make an 800 mile trip. It will use a lot of oil however, and get very poor economy.

[Gottolovem]

Seafoam here i come