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Yes. As for the question about will a head gasket leak yield zero compression, yes it will. 1 and 2 are going in opposite directions, and one is sucking up what the other leaks, at the same rate, limited only by the size of the blowout in the gasket. I've seen zero several times while I learned to replace a 2.6 headgasket right. I got lots of practice, and by delaying the fix, often eroded the leak into a bigun. Piston speed is low, too...


I did not want to go againist the grain on this and alot of stuff on this forum ..So I did not bring this up ...Fastaddys right and I have sean alot of bad head gaskets with 0 compression ... My new V6 Raider had 0 on two cyl with a bad spot on the gasket the whole gasket was gone between the two ...It must of run blown for some time ...It so bad it "fluttered the head" to the point it can not be cut or fixed ...

You can talk this out all day ... But you do not really know what the problem is untill you pull it down...

David

Hazardous Toys inc

(Fluttered head gasket ... The metal ring on the gasket at the cylinder hammers up and down as the motor moves up and down and pounds a grove into the aluminum head that is a imprint of the gasket...)