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Im about to do a compression test and I can't find any good guides. I assume its safe to just take the spark plugs out screw in the tester and crank? The fuel pump fuse looks like its hard to get too would it be fine to leave the fuel shooting in it should just evaporate if I have all plugs out.

Hi Saab Central I´m new to this site but figured it´s just the right place to get some much needed guidance for my 2002 Saab 9-3 2.0T aut. What happened: About a month ago I was driving home and the turbo decided to fail. It sent all the engine oil to the cylinders and as you can imagine the...

Just found out from our mechanic that they think the piston rings are shot on our 2000 9-5 Aero. No compression in the cylinder and the compression stroke is almost blowing the oil filler cap off. They are quoting $1680 in labour for an engine swap, plus the cost of a used engine. They say...

Im going to be doing a TD04 swap soon and a tune on my 04 Linear, and one of my buddies suggested I do a compression test before modding. Is anyone here familiar with comp.tests on our cars? It has just over 100,000kms (60k miles) and all the maintenance is done on time... do you guys think it...

As some of you will recall, I completely replaced the engine oil cooler lines and the oil filter housing to stop a fairly serious loss of oil from those components a short while back. I have been carefully monitoring the engine bay to see if I figure out where other oil leaks are occuring but...

I don't know if anybody can help me with this but I figured I'd ask. I recently rebuild the 2.3L in my 2000 9-5. I used the stock block (which the previous owner blew up the #4 piston in) and a used cylinder head from an 02 which had thrown a rod on #3. I was assured the head was good and it...