Subliminal
Chief Petty Officer
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- Oct 21, 2009
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Re: O.K. I'm buying a boat.....UPDATE: bought one BAD news....
Well, fortunately for you it's a good time of year to have the boat down, eh?
On 4 cylinder engines, I believe the outside two pistons go up and down together and the inside two go up and down together.
I think that of the two going up and down together, one is on the compression stroke and one is not.
In my experience (I used to love playing with Dodge 4 Cylinder turbo engines...you could buy the car for a few hundred bucks, put in a new head gasket and have a fast running car for nothing) I'd say it's more likely than not that your HG is just busted between #2 and #3. The compression from one is just going to the other and vice versa as they go up and down together.
Now, if you overheated, you'll probably want to have the head checked for level and maybe decked....but if you do the rest of the work yourself, and if you can do it without yanking the engine, then it shouldn't cost much and shouldn't even take that long, outside of dropping the head off at a machine shop.
Now, of course anything can go wrong, like has been said it could be a valve or a piston or any number of things, but I don't see how someone can do a simple compression check and give you a definitive answer like that.
That's like going to a doctor who asks you to cough and tells you it's swine flu...lol...there should be a tad bit more testing, me thinks.
Well, fortunately for you it's a good time of year to have the boat down, eh?
On 4 cylinder engines, I believe the outside two pistons go up and down together and the inside two go up and down together.
I think that of the two going up and down together, one is on the compression stroke and one is not.
In my experience (I used to love playing with Dodge 4 Cylinder turbo engines...you could buy the car for a few hundred bucks, put in a new head gasket and have a fast running car for nothing) I'd say it's more likely than not that your HG is just busted between #2 and #3. The compression from one is just going to the other and vice versa as they go up and down together.
Now, if you overheated, you'll probably want to have the head checked for level and maybe decked....but if you do the rest of the work yourself, and if you can do it without yanking the engine, then it shouldn't cost much and shouldn't even take that long, outside of dropping the head off at a machine shop.
Now, of course anything can go wrong, like has been said it could be a valve or a piston or any number of things, but I don't see how someone can do a simple compression check and give you a definitive answer like that.
That's like going to a doctor who asks you to cough and tells you it's swine flu...lol...there should be a tad bit more testing, me thinks.
