From a single piston lawn mower engine, to a diesel or V8 engine, the process is entirely the same – measure what the cylinder is producing in PSI. Understanding a compression test procedure is also understanding what you are trying to achieve, and that is consistency between the numbers of each cylinder, and looking for the outlier, or outliers.
There are two ways to count cylinder order in the Chevrolet 5.3 liter engine. If our consideration is the firing order, then the order is 1 – 8 – 7 – 2 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3. But if our consideration is numbering order, there are two lines. The right line consists of 1 – 3 – 5 – 7 cylinders, and the left side consists of 2 – 4
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