Compression testing will not detect a small combustion chamber leak into the
cooling system.

Dennis

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rob
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:45 AM
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Subject: Re: cooling system diagnostic help? Long, lots of info about whats
been done so far.

At  4/25/2010 08:31 PM, Karl Wolz wrote:
>Don,
>
>I'm with Mark on this one.  If you have a friendly mechanic, he can use a
>"sniffer" to detect the presence of exhaust gasses in your pressure tank -
a
>pretty sure confirmation of our diagnosis.
>
>Karl Wolz

Compression testers are cheap....

Rob
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