Re: Bad news from my compression test I think....how can car STILL refuse to start?

Posted by N.C.23rdPackard On 2012/9/11 21:37:12

I thought that the pistons were under the plug too, like on a SBC, but it is the intake valve on these. I take the screw driver out before I turn it over, (gona use the straw trick next time tho and leave it in) Also the rubber bottom kind of compression testers DO suck (I used to have one)as they always leak, that is way I bought the kind with all the spark plug threads that screw in to the plug hole and have an O-ring to stop leaks. I have had the valves stuck and un-stuck 6 times today and I STILL have to hammer them down with a wood dowl, so just "working them loose" is a distant memory. No, I am afraid that there are still plenty scraped and cuss words in my future yet still. Thanks anyways tho! Steve