Adjusting the valves is the 1st thing next on my "to-do" list. I don't have the equipment to do it (I hear that a person should have a couple of bent 14 mil wrenches at hand). I guess I could take a couple of regular 14 mil wrenches and heat them up and bend them....but sometimes when you do something like that (depending upon the type of cheap material they used to make them) you could loose the temper in the wrenches and they wouldn't hold up well. Has anyone tried this with success? I am still looking at ebay for a cheap set to bid on.

As far as checking the compression....I don't have the equipment. There is a local independent guy I could take it to. But, I really would rather spend the money on buying the equipment to do it myself instead of paying him to do it. What exactly do I need to check compression?

Thanks,
mike