merkerguitars

So I work for a shop in Wisconsin, and my boss bought a 1992 pickup (pretty decent shape it needs some help but nothing I can't fix) from one of his other buddies shops, they say it needs an engine 22RE.

Pull it in, charge up the battery do a compression check...80 first cylinder and about 40 psi on all the others...

So tear the head off? What are likely problems. The truck has about 137,xxx on it so I don't think it can be to big of a deal.

limon32

Pour some oil in the cylinders and recheck compression, if it goes up its rings, if it stays the same it valves. In any case taking the head off with that kind of compression will be necessary at some point.

vandert

^^^

Yeap, what he said, check out Engnbuldr for the rebuild kit if it's needed, ran his stuff in my 86"project I built a few years back, good stuff.

Good luck man