"Mandrake" > writes:

> consider also that this could be caused by a cracked cyl head..
>
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > I once had a car with a blown head gasket that flunked the bubble test
> > but had compression within specs on all cylinders.
>
> Really? Did you find the source of the leak?

It was a cracked cylinder head (note your suggestion above!).
Mitsubishi 2.6, with the famed intake-valve-too-close-to-exhaust-valve
head crack.

> But a bubbler that passed a compression check, eh? Wow. I didn't know
> that could happen. Did one of the cylinders have lower compression than
> the others, but still read nominally within spec?

I don't remember that much detail on it, sorry.
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