This reminds me of when my '65 Beetle convertible sucked #3 exhaust valve years ago. It broke the top out of #3 piston and pieces of it ended up embedded in the combustion chambers of #s 1, 2, and 4. It sure sounds like it's time to pull the heads and see what has happened. Mike Houlton, Maine '84 GL 7 pass '85 GL Westy
> Recently, I posted regarding a problem where my van suddenly lost power > and > I found that one of my spark plugs (#2) had broken (topic: "Broken Spark > Plug Electrode/Tip"). After receiving some kind advice from the list, I > simply replaced the plug and hoped for the best. But after replacing, the > van was still running poorly, with low power particularly on acceleration, > as if that cylinder was not running right (it was firing). > > After some obligatory useless fiddling, I ended up taking it to the shop, > which found that compression on the #4 cylinder was very low, while it was > good on the others, including the #2 which had the fried plug. The van > was > running fine before the spark plug incident. So, strangely to me, it > seems > that the spark plug incident on the #2 cylinder caused the problem I'm now > having w/ the #4. > > Is this possible? Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > James V > 90 Carat |
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