Date:         Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:42:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Nunya Business <bulletheadx@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Nunya Business <bulletheadx@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cooling System (more White Smoke) symptoms
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The thing most of us call the 'head gasket'- the rubber gasket between the
head and the outer case- doesn't have anything to do with compression per se
as it would in a 'normal' engine.

You could still have normal compression if that gasket was gone altogether.

Cya,
Robert


> My main question at this point is,  do the following cylinder
> compression tests ( and plug inspections) definitively point to a leaky
> head gasket

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