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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 10:34 PM
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compression check....need help with specs

i only did the front rotor...i did it with a piston compression checker. iturned the key to start 3 times (lets the pressure aout between each check) and they went as followed 60, 60, 40.

anyone wanna translate this for me.

im thinkin this is bad..but because its for pistons its all different (and when i searched it was all...BLAH BLAH BLAH...nothing that helped)

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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 11:45 PM
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come on come ones knows.

i need to know if i have to find another daily driver...and be prepared to be bitched at by my folks (i HAD to have this car...and now school is starting and i have no car....i have alota planf for the engine if it needs rebuilt (already have another engine on an engine stand) but damn i need to know if i can drive it or not)

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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 12:01 AM
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sure ya can

yeh ya can drive it, sounds alittle low to me, it shouldn't drop like that in comp though, that's alittle strange, just drive it into the ground and replace. Cuz there isn't much of an easy fix for it
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 12:25 AM
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yeah im gona try and find another car...sucks tho i prolly cant get one (dad has a HUGE loan out becuase hes buying a business AND starting one of his own..therefor he cant get my a loan...SUCKS)
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 12:27 AM
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Thats some really low compression. However u cant get an acurate reading with a piston compression checker... the only thing u can do is make sure u have compression in the first place.

Id get an acurate comppression check done on it first.

Just so u know if u have two good sides of the rotor and one bad, the problem is going to be in the side seal. If you have two bad sides of the rotor and one good, u have a apex seal problem.
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