head gasket problem
Jace91974
07-08-2004, 01:25 PM
My car is a 1970 grand prix SJ , 455 ho 4 brrl in it , the head were redone 2 years ago . I did a compression check on it and chamber number 5 is dead . I`m getting ready to replace the head gasket on it again and take the and take the heads in to get a valve job so can one tell me what the comperssion should read at ? thanks
quaddriver
07-08-2004, 05:49 PM
the final numbers are unimportant (well, assuming all get over 100psi) but the variance is important - gm allows I think 25-30% high hole - low hole on those motors. I like to keep it below 20 and indeed typically have 5% or less on my rebuilds
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