Jay Honeck wrote in news:1192454721.367225.108920
@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Oh, and the J-3? Last time I saw it it had over 4,000 hours on the
engine and hadn;t even had a top.

Those things run forever. Of course, they've got no compression or
power to begin with, so you won't notice any further loss...

;-)

There wasn't any further loss. I did the compression checks on it myself
sometimes, and they were still in the 70s then. We rented it out and we
couldn;t have done that if it wasn't sound.
the rest of the airplane, however, was a bit of a mess!
Still it held together the whole time I flew it. Mostly.

Bertie