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RE: Leak-Down Testing

To: "'Tony Clark'" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>, shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net,
Subject: RE: Leak-Down Testing
From: Ken Landaiche <ken_landaiche@dlcc.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:55:58 -0700
Tony,

Before we sign off on this thread, what is the layout of the compression
tester? Up for some ASCII art?

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony  Clark [SMTP:lotus.tony@airmail.net]
> 
> Thanks John;  when I build a tester for myself, I think I'll include
> a provision to allow varying the orifice diameter unless I can find
> out that there is some "standard".  Hmmmm, maybe I'll borrow a
> "Snap-On" and measure the orifice.
> 'Preciate,
> Tony
> 
> ----------
> > From: R. John Lye
> 
> > >I've seen a diagram, I see that the air supply pressure bleeds
> > >through a small orifice on the way to the engine cylinder and that
> > >the pressure of the "supply" is compared to the pressure of the
> > >cylinder to arrive at the percent of leakdown but:  
> > 
> > Yup, that's about it.
> 

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