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To: "Spit" <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: Compression
From: "Rich" <rhendrik@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:57:00 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich" <rhendrik@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Spit" <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Compression


> I sure would like to know how electrical can inpact compression unless you
> have one of those new jap engines in it or you can't spin the engine fast
> enough to get a reading
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Hargreave Mawson" <OC@46thFoot.com>
> To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:01 AM
> Subject: Compression
>
>
> >
> > In article <005c01c0c092$ebd336e0$0200000a@shack>, BillG
> > <wrgingerich@qwest.net> writes
> >
> > >BTW, after running the engine for about an hour the compression numbers
> are
> > >125, 120, 120, 10.  Oil in the cylinder doesn't help.  Me thinks I have
a
> > >valve problem.
> >
> > What should the numbers be?   My mechanic tells me that my compression
> > figures are now "all right" at 155/160/165/155 (this is the 1500 High
> > Compression engine).   Previously one cylinder was giving zero - and it
> > was an electrical problem.
> >
> > ATB
> > Mike
> > --
> > Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
> > published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
> > http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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