At 22:19 28/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
> The usual leak down test is well... uh.... a leak down test, where
>compressed air is fed to the cylinder via the spark hole and the
>goal is to find where the air is leaking from and how much (roughly)
>is leaking.
Trevor,
That confirms what I was told. Funnily, none of the shops I have spoken to
know anyone with the equipment, which I could make myself with a lathe, some
rubber tubing, a pressure gauge, and a regulated compressor (maybe I will.)
Ny idea how much pressure one would apply? (Don't want to pop any seals.)
Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
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