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1. Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: dereck.carey@cdsi.com; Date: Fri, 15 May 98 10:12:33 -0500; Since everyone is going on about compression I thought I would continue the topic and ask a little advice. Yesterday I went out and purchased a compression gauge and put it to work. The readings I re; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00826.html (9,231 bytes)
2. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: Harlan Jillson <hjillson@halnet.com>; Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:00:45 -0500; Did you take a compression reading before you adjusted the valves? I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I doubt that the engine would even fire with a compression of 20 ( if it did, it wouldn't; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00832.html (10,108 bytes)
3. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@iname.com>; Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 21:58:14 +0000; Before pulling the head I think I would try to resolve some of the problems. Expecially if the car ran well not too long ago. Otherwise you could end up spending a lot of $ and still not have a runni; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00860.html (10,432 bytes)
4. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>; Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 04:25:46 +0000; 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 compressi; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00868.html (8,403 bytes)
5. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: rkegg@juno.com (Randell S Kegg); Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 21:48:03 EDT; Your compression readings are so low, that they would indicate an engine that would not run at all. This seems incompatible with the statement that you drove the car for 3 hours to get it home. I not; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00919.html (10,432 bytes)
6. Re[2]: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: dereck.carey@cdsi.com; Date: Tue, 19 May 98 10:16:31 -0500; thanks for all the responses. And I did take in all the advice. I went back to the valves and adjusted the valve lashes and it helped (very little) the compression went up to 32-32-60-90 (this wasn't; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01049.html (8,737 bytes)
7. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: Skye Poier <skye@hoth.ffwd.bc.ca>; Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:58:47 -0700; 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 starte; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01068.html (7,987 bytes)
8. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: "Robert Allen" <boballen@sky.net>; Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:07:47 -0500; Yes. Absolutely. Always. Buy a remote starter switch and spend some time with your wiring diagram. (Hint, it's off the starter solenoid and it ain't the big, thick one." Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CG; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01072.html (7,852 bytes)
9. Re: Low Compression Reading (longish) (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 07:57:52 +0000; My gauge instructions say to leave all the other plugs in and leave the throttle closed. My two engines give 'correct' readings like this. PaulH.; /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01515.html (7,448 bytes)

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