[TR] Spitfire Engine Woes

Randall TR3driver at ca.rr.com
Fri May 16 23:06:52 MDT 2014


> That seems to sort of make sense, but is a blown head gasket 
> likely to give
> you zero compression?,

I had a VW Rabbit (aka Golf) once where there was a piece of head gasket about 3/4 long missing.  It blew very close to zero on the
compression gauge (although might have been 5 psi, don't recall now).

> My thoughts are to definitely look at the valves with the 
> cover off as the

Absolutely.

> (don't have a leak down tester) 

No need if the compression test is showing the problem.  Leak down is only good for looking for leaks too small to detect with a
compression test.

Randall


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