Harbor Freight Leakdown tester, How does it work, or is mine just FUBAR? |
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Harbor Freight Leakdown tester, How does it work, or is mine just FUBAR? |
VaccaRabite |
Mar 15 2008, 09:51 PM
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En Garde! Group: Admin Posts: 13,456 Joined: 15-December 03 From: Dallastown, PA Member No.: 1,435 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
So I took out the new HF leak tester to play with it.
I just put on the 3/4 bank of pistons/cylinder and torqued down the head. Get N03 to TDC. Pull the tester out of the box, and the leak gauge is showing about 40% leak before I even plug it in. OKay, so I read the instructions, as this looks like it works differently from the last tester that I used. Directions say to hook it up to the engine. Then depresurize the regulator until the leak dial hits zero. Then it should give me a percentage loss. Huh? There has to be somehting else I do to show the percentage loss. I have not changed the tool from setting it to zero. Tool 1, Zach 0 Someone that has used one of these things please pipe in. What am I not doing. Zach |
scotty b |
Mar 16 2008, 02:44 PM
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rust free you say ? Group: Members Posts: 16,375 Joined: 7-January 05 From: richmond, Va. Member No.: 3,419 Region Association: None |
IMO Harbor Frieight is in the total junk catagory as a whole. NEVER trust anything mechanical to cheapo tools. Zach I bought this one. It isn't a Strap On but it works well and costs about 1/3 what a strap on will.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/New-Dual-Ga...sspagenameZWDVW |
VaccaRabite |
Mar 16 2008, 06:00 PM
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En Garde! Group: Admin Posts: 13,456 Joined: 15-December 03 From: Dallastown, PA Member No.: 1,435 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
IMO Harbor Frieight is in the total junk catagory as a whole. NEVER trust anything mechanical to cheapo tools. Zach I bought this one. It isn't a Strap On but it works well and costs about 1/3 what a strap on will. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/New-Dual-Ga...sspagenameZWDVW Cool, bought one. Zach |
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