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Re: Engine compression

Subject: Re: Engine compression
From: Graham Singleton <100421.2123@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:47:55
>>What two pressure gauges ? Anyone know what this means ?  
An Austrian perhaps?<<

Sounds like a normal compression tester. Apply air at 80 psi through  the
plughole but via a capilary. Then measure the pressure in the cylinder. You are
comparing the leak past rings and valves with the leak through the capilay.
Graham



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