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Date:         Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:21:25 -0500
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From:         walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil (Pat Walsh)
Subject:      Re:  81 dilemma

Matt Goike <goikem@state.mi.us> writes: >hi, its me again with the chirping van. i investigated many of the >possibilities suggested by various listmembers, and everything on the >outside seems ok (spark plugs tight, no trash in fan, not >alternator/belt/muffler). i ran a compression test, and the results were >(in order) 90, 104, 125,124. the first two retested wet went up to 114 >and 120. so it's probably not the valves, right? another thing i did is >remove plug wires (only one at a time) and rev the engine to try to >duplicate the chirp. when i removed plug wire #2, the chirping almost >completely went away. head gasket leak? i didn't retorque the heads >(as was recommended last fall before storage) because i wanted to ask >for advice on this first. is there anything further that can be done >without pulling the engine? Maybe an intake or exhaust leak on #2? Just trying to think of things that wouldn't require a rebuild...

Pat Walsh, '71 Westy, walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil


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