At 10:48 PM 10/24/98 -0400, William M. Gilroy wrote:
>.... I could no find any air leaking (i.e. hearing a hiss) from the
valves. Both the tail pipe and the carb were silent. For the two
cylinders (1 & 4) with good compression I could not detect any leaks into
the crank case. Cylinders 2 & 3, the ones with the low compression leaked
quite a bit of air into the crank case. I could detect air movement with
my fingers at both the dipstick hole and in the valve galleys. I could not
hear any leakage between adjacent cylinders.
>....
Blowing throught the crankcase only would indicate bad rings, allowing
blow-by in the cylinders.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
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