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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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 |
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