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Re: Compression

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Subject: Re: Compression
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:28:20 +0100
In article <200104090628.f396Sfj23426@teamfat2.dsl.aros.net>, Mark J
Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net> writes
>
>      Previously one cylinder was giving zero - and it
>      was an electrical problem.
>
>Okay, I must know.  How does an electrical problem relate to compression
>readings, other than a weak battery not being able to spin the motor when
>doing the test?  Sure, a bad ignition system may make the car *behave* as if
>it had a cylinder with a hole in it, but compression readings depend on the
>integrity of the cylinders, pistons, rings, head, head gasket and valves.
>Where does an electrical element come into play?

In the testing equipment.   I *knew* I should have added a smiley at the
end of that...

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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