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Old 08-24-2009, 10:48 PM
Togorashi Togorashi is offline
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Originally Posted by 79Mercy View Post
The reason your compression is low is because you have a blown haedgasket or a cracked or warped head. Usually when you have 2 cylinders low on compression right next each other its either a cracked/warped head or a bad headgasket.
I guess the part that I am curious about, is what changed? The compression has been low for a while. Maybe it was starting to fail and then it failed completely all at once? I would think I would be burning through more coolant and would see more smoke too.
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