Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
[Re: ashburnmike]
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it's 14 MM & most if not all are that size & a few have 18MM adapters(which you wont need). I would suggest you get a fairly good one at your parts house that will continue to give accurate readings years to come. Compression testing is somewhat basic & people have gotten away from them somewhat but they have saved me lots of times when my mind wanted to get away from the K.I.S.S. principle.
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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12/29/08 12:24 AM
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it's 14 MM & most if not all are that size & a few have 18MM adapters(which you wont need). I would suggest you get a fairly good one at your parts house that will continue to give accurate readings years to come. Compression testing is somewhat basic & people have gotten away from them somewhat but they have saved me lots of times when my mind wanted to get away from the K.I.S.S. principle.
Thanks Robert.
I'll post the findings tomorrow evening with, hopefully, a consistant reading cylinder to cylinder. If there is a substantial difference though and if the concensus is that it is the head gaskets, I will be leaning on you guys once again for more guidance.
But then the question arises, what caused it to happen in the first place.
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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12/29/08 08:08 PM
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Not having the throttle wired open will affect the readings some, but not so much so that the readings are not valid--your readings are all in the same ball park. Probably not a head gasket.
I am on record as never thinking that is/was a head gasket. Really nothing really pointed to a head gasket problem. (Full coolant levels, nice oil and oil level normal.)
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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12/29/08 08:52 PM
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#1 140 #2 150 #3 135 #4 135 #5 140 #6 147 #7 145 #8 140
You have a healthy long block. I am out of ideas also except for as he said vac leak
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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would something as simple as fouled plugs be the culprit for the stumbling in the motor...but that doesn't explain the running hot does it.
Nope, and it doesn't explain the oil pressure shooting up, either... Wierd...
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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All I can think of now is what vitc gtx said, a slight intake coolant leak and I wonder if the ECU is acting up & when it was right was it idling at 1500?
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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If you have the ralley dash, your fuel gauge could be the cause of your gauges reading too high, as the voltage limiter is part of the fuel gauge, and could cause the gauges to read too high or to low if it malfunctions. Happened to my 340 duster, all three gauges, (temp, oil press and fuel level started reading half of what they should have because of the fuel gauge. I imagine a non ralley cluster may do the same if plug-in style voltage limiter freaks out. Head gasket re-torqing is seldom done, so if the bolts were torqued to correct specs, it should not cause a problem.
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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12/29/08 10:40 PM
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take a picture of the smoke cloud????
go figure...
When I ran it today to warm it up...no cloud...no anything out of the tailpipes
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Re: not sure, maybe a blown headgasket
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If you have the ralley dash, your fuel gauge could be the cause of your gauges reading too high, as the voltage limiter is part of the fuel gauge, and could cause the gauges to read too high or to low if it malfunctions. Happened to my 340 duster, all three gauges, (temp, oil press and fuel level started reading half of what they should have because of the fuel gauge. I imagine a non ralley cluster may do the same if plug-in style voltage limiter freaks out. Head gasket re-torqing is seldom done, so if the bolts were torqued to correct specs, it should not cause a problem.
Yes it is the Rallye dash. The gauges were steady and stable until this recent occurance. How can you test the gauges? Could that also cause the motor to stumble if the current was interrupted...creating the "miss'
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