Subject: Re: Need some advice... by Danspeed1 on 2009/6/10 1:30:38
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CentralCoaster wrote: I don't understand your method. If you've got no timing belt, both valves shut 100% of the time, where is your engine getting air to compress in the first place? It's only going to squeeze whatever happened to be in the cylinder before you hooked up your guage.
That would leave your pressure readings completely dependent on where the piston was before you started the test.
True, and I am not going to lie and tell you I thought about that because I didn't. But my thinking was that the air in the cylinders would compress showing a reading on the gauge, and if the cylinders bled off or didn't build at all I would know something was wrong.
In any event, there is no point in waiting to install the new belt just to do a compression test. At the point where i buy the pulleys and tensioners I am already a couple hundred in the whole. I already have most the parts, just waiting on a couple of gaskets. Might as well throw it back together and see if she runs. My goal is to just get a few more thousand miles out of this engine, and then look into "something else."
