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Old 05-16-2025, 06:37 PM
ericwoo ericwoo is offline
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Originally Posted by steve25 View Post
Why bother shelling out money for a leak down tester?
Your to the point now of having to pull both heads to find out what’s going on at least in my mind.

Even if you did a leak down tester and it pointed to valve leakage, then you’re still yanking that head at that point anyway.

You lower compression on that bank is so even that I can’t see it being due to rings, so that leaves the head as the cause.
Good point, but wont the leak down tester show me if its leaking out of the head gasket vs the valves so I know what to fix when removed? I've never used a leak down tester- just looking into stuff I read online.

If it's a valve leak, is that most likely the valve stems that need to be replaced?