The head gasket that is being talked about here is the metal one between
the top of the cylinder and the head and, yes, it can leak combustion.

I see that one as the actual head gasket and always talk about the other
one by including the word "Rubber".  Maybe I'm just not one of the "Most
of us".  LOL

Mike

Nunya Business wrote:
> The thing most of us call the 'head gasket'- the rubber gasket between the
> head and the outer case- doesn't have anything to do with compression per se
> as it would in a 'normal' engine.
>
> You could still have normal compression if that gasket was gone altogether.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
>
>> My main question at this point is,  do the following cylinder
>> compression tests ( and plug inspections) definitively point to a leaky
>> head gasket
>