2010/09/10 17:23:08
Simpson101

Just finished my escort today, took it for abot a 10km drive came home and it boiled. i then let it cool down and started it about 2hours later, it seamed to run ok. Then i took it for a little drive she got to about 100 degress C, so i put a bigger radiator in when i started it up to test drive it was running realy ruff. I did a compression test and the results were: piston one 150psi, two 150, three 135, four 150 pistion 3 seam rather low, So i started it up and took no 3 spark plug lead off and it made no difference to the running. Then i took the head off, the head gastket was fine, the bore was in good condition too. when i was turning the engine over by hand (with the head off) it had a slight hard patch is that normal?
any idea what has happend cheers
2010/10/14 23:30:49
ratta tat tat
How much work did you do to the engine? Did you replace pistons or rings?
2010/10/15 06:54:05
hendo
no its not normal,should turn over smoothly all the way.What has been done to the motor during its rebuild?

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