Compression tester

[Scotty72]

Anyone local to Nottingham got a compression tester I can borrow? If not, can you recommend a decent one that's not too expensive.

Scott

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Is it for an S2000, I only ask, as they’re quite deep set spark plugs, so it would need to be reasonably long reach.

[Scotty72]

@Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary

Yes it is for an S2000. Can you recommend one?

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Never tried mine on the Honda! (Won’t get a chance to till next week either, I’m afraid). Mine was OK on the deep set XE plugs on my previous engine, so I suspect might be a alright.

[Tom Frankland (T3OMF)]

I used one of these on my S2000 engine 

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cht693-8-piece-compression-tester-kit/

Did the job fine, you need to have the throttle wide open when you do it

[Scotty72]

1 hour ago, Tom (T3OMF) - Cotswolds AO said:

I used one of these on my S2000 engine 

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cht693-8-piece-compression-tester-kit/

Did the job fine, you need to have the throttle wide open when you do it

How do you get in to tighten it up?

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

It's tricky to get the hose to screw in square and you don't want to strip the threads in the head 

I just tightened it by hand as best I could.

[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

I'm in Derby..I have  one you can borrow.....or drive over and we can check it 'while you wait'

[Scotty72]

2 hours ago, Trevturtle said:

I'm in Derby..I have  one you can borrow.....or drive over and we can check it 'while you wait'

Cheers. I'll take you up on that offer 

When is convenient for me to pop over?

[rjc4176]

Is it worth checking and adjusting the valve clearances first before you do a compression check

[Scotty72]

1 hour ago, rjc4176 said:

Is it worth checking and adjusting the valve clearances first before you do a compression check

Possibly, that's a bit beyond my capabilities though. 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

It's fairly easy. See attached.

valve clearance.pdf

[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

23 hours ago, Scotty72 said:

Cheers. I'll take you up on that offer 

When is convenient for me to pop over?

Does next Saturday work for you?.... we can move if it's raining

[Thrustyjust]

19 hours ago, IanK (Bagpuss) said:

It's fairly easy. See attached.

valve clearance.pdf

I can confirm on it not being difficult, but you will need bent feelers for the inlet ones as its a real ball ache to get round the inlet manifold. If I had thought about it, I should have done it before putting in the car as would be a so much easier. 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

1 hour ago, Thrustyjust said:

I can confirm on it not being difficult, but you will need bent feelers for the inlet ones as its a real ball ache to get round the inlet manifold. If I had thought about it, I should have done it before putting in the car as would be a so much easier. 

Didn’t ‘operation yewtree’ Lock up all the Bent Feelers 

I now  recall I did mine with the engine on a stand with no manifolds so didn’t have this issue