[Vwdiesel] compression test results on stinky ('89 1.6 na)

[Bart Wineland]

It would take at least 6 or 7surges/revs to build up to where it stopped 
building compression on the gauge. The hose is pretty big.
Rechecked my pump timing today also while I had it apart to make sure I did 
it right the other day.  Came out about the same at .90 mm. I was curious 
while I had the gauge in and pulled the cold start out to see what happens 
and it advanced it to about 1.15mm. Not sure if that is good but that is 
what I saw.  Also used the re-dimple technique suggested by James and Loren 
for my heat shields and seemed to work great. I don't imagine it is 
something that should be repeated again on the same shields but sure seemed 
to work at least once and saved the day. .

thanks,

Bart



At 11:34 PM 7/17/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>   Good thing, your compression is fairly even.  How many revolutions did
>you have to crank to get those readings?  Most of the low price testers
>use a fairly large hose, this makes the readings much slower to rise and
>also makes for a much larger combustion chamber area and most likely
>a bit lower readings than reality.  The really nice tester uses a fairly
>small
>ID and has a flexible filler, like a speedometer cable in it.
>      Loren  (with no horses, just lots of carpet pad)
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