No pressure – compression that is
I’ve been poking around on the project bike as time allows. It’s been surprisingly refreshing to work on the old beast. I used to enjoy working on my cars, but hadn’t wanted to commit to any of those projects in a while.
It turns out that the bike is worse that I thought. It’s down to zero compression on all three cylinders. I reset the cam/crank timing chain hoping to fix the problem. It turns out that the bike has some stuck valves. I’m going to pull the head and assess the state of the block this weekend. I get the feeling that the bike sat for a while with the valves open, so I’m hoping that the job only needs a trip to the machine shop and a some gaskets…