follow up ..because she had been sitting for a year or so I squirted motor oil in cylinders ... turned her over without the plugs in to make sure the walls were lubricated ... re-checked compression ... now at 125 psi each cylinder ... pulled the fuel line to the carb and ran the pump to make sure gas was getting there. reinstalled plugs ... pulled the choke and set the throttle to half. Hit the starter and she fired ... lots of smoke from the oil I'd added. Smoke cleared after a while ... let her run till warm then rechecked compression ... now at 175 psi. Smokes a bit when idling .. today I'm going to check oil pressure and buy a 340 cca battery for her ... she came without a battery .. oh ya .. she moves fine too. $277 bucks says she was a good bargain so far.

uh oh ... oil pouring out the bottom ... looks like the main seal on the flywheel end is done ... got the technical manual out to look at how hard it'll be to pull the motor out to replace the seals. Likely will yank the heads off and check the ridge in the cylinders for wear. Still pondering whether to just buy a rebuilt Kawasaki fd620d rather than bandaid this +1900 hour engine and hope for the best.