Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:37:01 -0600 From: CMM <newsgroupinkynospamail.com> Subject: Re: Last Chance for My '85 900
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:20:52 +0100, "Charles C." <c.k.christacopoulos.removeme.nospamee.ac.uk> wrote: > >How have you tested? > >Removed all plugs, take out fuel fuse crank engine? > >If yes, please try once more ... and add a little engine oil through >each plug hole (Don't know though what happens if you have a catalyst >and oil goes down the exhaust pipe). > >The added oil should show you if you have worn out rings/cylinders. If >compression goes up then they are worn ... The compression does come up slightly on three. I didn't test the other ones since they weren't critically low. >Hope I am wrong! Do you loose coolant? If yes, compare also the plug >on No. 3 with the others. Heads of that era, (definitely on an 1982/83 >car ... crack on cylinder No.3. The crack is not repairable. This >would explain why the engine does not work once it has warmed up ... I lose only a tiny bit of coolant. There's no white "smoke" coming out of the exhaust and no sign of water in the oil. >If it helps at all. Thanks, Charles. -- Christian
