New engine has loss of compression

There you go , never buy a cheap gauge , to bad you stripped the threads in the spark plug hole , if not you could have waited for a good gauge to test before tear down . At least next year you'll be sure everything is working well . Maybe once the heads are off a bit of winter porting ?

Yea exactly, well at least it happened now and not during the summer when I should be driving it! And possibly, may as well do something like that since the heads are already off!