Just finished my sti pink emblem. putting it on tomorrow morning! and with the coffee cup mod, can i just use like water-proof epoxy sealant to connect the nipples? i dont have a welder
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I used Teflon Tape on my threads and then put high temp RTV around the base once they were screwed in. I could have made it a lot prettier, but it gets the job done.92ColoradoTurbo wrote:But that wouldnt explain the compression of zero in cylinder #1. and there is a black spot on my driveway from unburnt gas and it smells like its running rich (smells like fuel) when i let it warm up every morning. Thanks for the reply though ^^
Just finished my sti pink emblem. putting it on tomorrow morning! and with the coffee cup mod, can i just use like water-proof epoxy sealant to connect the nipples? i dont have a welder
Yea and i think i made another... Stupid Haynes repair manual said to remove the "six" bolts around the valve cover to get it off..... turns out, those are the bolts to my heads i think and my head gasket is probably offset now, they need to be at a certain torque setting, right?jefferson wrote:Sorry I missed the second page where you found the problem.
Well i stuck a long screwdriver done the spark plug hole and manually cranked the engine and the screwdriver went down then up and i stopped cranking right when the screwdriver stopped moving up. And i wasnt cranking very fast cause it took forever to get tdc. But yes, i did listen down the oil filler cap, and the throttle body and coolant resevoir and exhaust. i could hear air from the exhaust, not the others.Legacy777 wrote:Are you sure you verifed that the TDC was on the compression stroke....so both sets of valves were closed? Also, when you were doing the leak down test did you remove the oil filler cap to hear if any air is coming out through the crank case?
are or arn't? can i manually crank the engine with the valve cover off and see if the cam lobes are not pushing any of the valves in?Legacy777 wrote:You can also remove the valve cover and verify that the cam lobes are slightly opening any valves.