lkeuten
New Member
I just had another thought. With flooding, and the vehicle being never really warmed up you could have a build up of soot around the valves and the top compression ring. I've seen this give some strange compression readings. I used to give them the kerosene treatment ( hey, that's what my pappy always called it.). You need to do this out in the open cause it will make a couple tons of smoke. You take a quart of kerosene get the engine good and warm and try to keep it in the 2000 rpm range. Very slowly start pouring the kerosene down the carb throat. Do Not Let It Die. When you have run approximately 2/3 of the kerosene through it you can go ahead and let the engine die but don't pour anymore kerosene in after it kills. Leave the car set overnight start it up the next day keep it running until you don't see anymore kerosene smoke coming out of the exhaust. Then drive it varying the rpms between 2 and 4 grand for about 15 minutes. This will take the soot and any buildup of carbon out of the top end. Then I would usually put fresh spark plugs in and do an oil change. I have heard of people doing this same thing with ATF and water and getting the same resultss, but I've always used just straight kerosene.
