Great suggestion Adam. We have a leak down tester - a useful tool for sure. In this case, we would have learned a bunch if we had done that but quite frankly forgot! One thing to note - when engines have been sitting for a long time, sometimes the rings stick and you have low compression until you run the engine long enough to heat up the pistons. You can get low compression or a bad leak down test but it is premature to conclude you need to rebuild the engine. Next week's episode will have more diagnostics - we have a little work to do on the engine, but I am thinking at this point that we will get away with some version of a "shop" rebuild rather than any expensive machine shop work.Thank you for your comment!
Indeed! My wife should know after 27 years that leaving me alone totally unsupervised is a questionable action! As for more parts - indeed - working on it.
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...been working for me for years! My skin is a little ashen, but what price vanity?😂