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Old 31-07-2010, 05:32 PM
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when your engines ticking over and you remove the oil cap and it cuts out, the engine has good compression is this true??
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not really, just means your breather isnt blocked.
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i thought so, its just some 19 year old know all talking crap lol....
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No utter rubbish, if you do it on a MFI car such as ERST it will cut out due to an air leak.

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Why do they cut out ie when oil dipstick is out and on efi it wont??
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Because the Mfi flap relies on a vacuum on the inlet side. As soon as you introduce an air leak the flap closes (can't open/open enough) so forces a lean mixture... so the car cuts out.

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Originally Posted by d2472
when your engines ticking over and you remove the oil cap and it cuts out, the engine has good compression is this true??
on most engines its more likely to mean you have fucked rings and its sucking air from the crankcase past them I should think, so quite the opposite to what he is saying.
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Sucking air from the crank case?? don't you mean compressed gas from the cylinder is being forced past the rings into the crank case?

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