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Re: Low Compression Reading (longish)

To: Scott Gardner <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
Subject: Re: Low Compression Reading (longish)
From: Skye Poier <skye@hoth.ffwd.bc.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:58:47 -0700
Word on the street is that Scott Gardner said:
> Those readings sound unbelievably low, especially for a 
> recently-running car.  I'm also particularly suspicious of all four 
> reading being so uniformly low.  Did you have a good seal with the 
> compression gauge?  Is it the type that screws into the spark plug 
> hole, or do you have to hold it tight against the opening by hand?  

> Did you have the throttle wide open when you cranked the engine?  

So you should pull all the plugs and floor the throttle when doing a
wet or dry compression test?

Oh yeah, and how do you start the car from the engine bay?  Just simply
hook up a wire from the starter lead thingy to a fused? unfused? lead
on the fuse block?

Skye

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