1970 Duster AlterKtion, 4 Link, LS/T56/Turbo and Minitub
Well, I made a tool to be able to check leakdown without having to have the heads on the car. Which was pretty handy. For anyone new to a leakdown test, you plug your compressor into the gauge, zero the gauge, and then attach it to the cylinder you want to be testing. It then will stabilize at whatever % your cylinder is leaking down. For a boosted motor 10-20% is acceptable. Well on the good side WITH the head still on I got 12%. So thats good. On the bad side with my new tool I got 75% leak down lol. Sigh.
So I yanked the motor back out of the car and pulled it apart. The passenger side (good side) all looked as it should. The driver side however presented the issues. The odometer shows 15 miles including dyno time lol. New record for me.
Sooo back to the machine shop the motor goes. I already have the gen 4 rods and I'm going to figure out what pistons I'm going to use.
Well, I made a tool to be able to check leakdown without having to have the heads on the car. Which was pretty handy. For anyone new to a leakdown test, you plug your compressor into the gauge, zero the gauge, and then attach it to the cylinder you want to be testing. It then will stabilize at whatever % your cylinder is leaking down. For a boosted motor 10-20% is acceptable. Well on the good side WITH the head still on I got 12%. So thats good. On the bad side with my new tool I got 75% leak down lol. Sigh.
So I yanked the motor back out of the car and pulled it apart. The passenger side (good side) all looked as it should. The driver side however presented the issues. The odometer shows 15 miles including dyno time lol. New record for me.
Sooo back to the machine shop the motor goes. I already have the gen 4 rods and I'm going to figure out what pistons I'm going to use.
