stev
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- Joined
- Jan 8, 2022
- Location
- Orange, CA
About 3 months ago my head gasket gave way because the coolant passage on the gasket cracked and started leaking so I had the head resurfaced and I took apart the head and cleaned it. I put everything back together the way it was before except the adjustable cam gear wasn't the same because I didn't take note of which angle it was set at before I removed it. So I start the car for the first time last night and it started, then stalled after about 5 seconds running poorly towards the end. After that I couldn't get it to start. I checked for spark and fuel and both were present despite one of the fuel injector o rings leaking pressure. So I do a compression test and I get 55,-,51,41. I couldn't get to cylinder #2 because I lost the adapter for the spark plug hole after stripping the threads to one of the other spark plug holes, great ending to a day. So I really don't want to pull it all apart again but seeing it's probably either bad piston rings or something else I don't really know what else can be done. I haven't done a compression test on it before because I only bought the car a couple months prior. It ran totally fine otherwise. Took longer than originally anticipated because this was all new to me and did some other supporting mods while it was apart. The car is a B230f+t swapped 242.
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