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Old 11-13-2018, 11:53 AM
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The el-cheapo Harbor Freight kit comes with both the injector adapter and the glow plug adapter for the pencil-style glow plugs. Shell out the $20 or so it costs and find out what the compression situation is. Is it a cheap and nasty kit? Sure. Are you a mechanic in a garage that's gonna use it every day for a living or are you just trying to diagnose a potential problem once? If the latter, don't shell out huge bucks for a basic tool you're gonna use once. You're more interested in the balance between cylinders, the precision of the peak pressure recorded isn't nearly as important.
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