Originally Posted by Chip-3Door

OMFG - ITS ALIVE!!!

Plugs look very black, but all the same.

Compression tested it and got just under 9 bar on all 4 cylinders, so definately no major compression loss anywhere like I had suspected.


Whacked a set of cheapy autofactor plugs in it today and it fired up.

So it was just the plugs had got coated up with soot as I neared the end of the bottle and the pressure dropped, thus making it go much richer.

This old cossie engine I built from scrap bits just will NOT fucking give in, LOL