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Re: Plugs taken out when warm was: [Tech, not specifically Roc]Running a compression test



On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:24:05 -0500 "Ryan McCarthy" <rmccarthy777@msn.com>
writes:
> That might help a lot.... might not... who knows? I just know *I* 
> wouldn't
> bother chancing it unless it was an emergency thing. You know what 
> happens
> when you tempt fate...
> 
> Ryan

You could always pull the plugs on a cold engine, put anti-seize on the
threads, reinstall them, and then warm up the engine.

This way it is very unlikely that you will strip any threads. 

Peter
'79 Scirocco 16V project car
'83 GTI "Caged Rabbit" 
'84 Scirocco, RD/FF
'80, '88 Scirocco rollers

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