[T3] One cylinder dead-not firing-#3

[Mike Fisher]

Ship your engine to www.chirco.com and let them build/paint/assemble/test
run it.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:35 PM, John L. Morgan IV <
emailjohnmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sometimes, I think it would be cheaper to fly Jim Adney out to Richmond
> and fix my car once and for all...the right way!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>
> > On 21 Jan 2014 at 16:31, John L. Morgan IV wrote:
> >
> > > valve three has 0 compression after a compression test. estimate was
> > > $1200 for a valve job, but not recommended on an old engine. could it
> be
> > > getting 0 compression if a simple injector cable is bad?
> >
> > Nothing FI related will make the compression go to zero.
> >
> > It would be really unusual to be getting ZERO compression. There's
> > usually something there. And $1200 for a valve job sounds extreme. Is
> > this from the same mechanic that you took it to before?
> >
> > I'd get a second estimate.
> >
> > How willing and able are you to do some of the work yourself? If the
> > compression is truly zero, the left head must be destroyed. You
> > should be able to buy a new head, complete, for 1/4 of that price and
> > put it in yourself, but that's a fair amount of work if you've never
> > done any of this before. If you've got head studs pulling out of the
> > case, then you're in for a complete engine rebuild to fix this.
> >
> > If you shop for a new head (or a good used one) make sure you get one
> > with the threaded boss for the temp sensor.
> >
> > If the guy just didn't get the compression gauge in there correctly,
> > which can happen, especially on #3, then the real news could be much
> > better.
> >
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