[Vwdiesel] No Start update

[James Hansen]

check your valve clearance.
put at tdc, run a feeler gauge between the lobes and the  followers.  sounds
like you have bad or no valve closure.  With those compression numbers your
engine is either turning over Veeeeeeery slowly, the valves are not closing,
or you forgot to install the rings. :-)  You checked ring end gaps, right?
should be at least a couple hundred psi on a fresh motor, cold or not.
-James


>
> Ok, got to thinking and did a compression check.  Don't know how good it
> will be because the engine is cold and with new rings that never have been
> ran.  Results are #1 80psi, #2 120psi #3 50psi #4 100psi,  I didn't put
any
> oil in the cylinders to see if it went up, I guess I could now that I
think
> of it, not like it has enough compression to fire off and that would tell
me
> if it was my rings or head,  just how much is enough without hydro locking
> the engine?
>
> Nick
>
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