Back to my head gasket help?
 

OK my turbo prelude went down, right before it got cold out. Now my lazy ass is getting the spring itch becasue of a few nice days we got.

ok, did a compression test 175,175,115,105. had lot of oil blow buy in the engine bay. I take the head off, some bolts I broke lose with a breaker bar (easy). than others I had to put a impact gun on it, it took a little while to get them out with the gun. So I fill up all 4 cylinders up half-way with gas. It took at least an hour before the gas seeps threw, all 4 cylinders were the same after the hour. Iam hoping its the head gasket, because I don't wanna take the pistons out. any help? thanks Ray

Re:Back to my head gasket help?
 

you removed your head studs with an impact gun? I hope you did it like Honda recomnds. and also by putting gas in the cylinders dosn't that wash out the oil causing for less compression just like when you totally flood a motor? i have been known to be wrong but i thought you was supposed to add just a little bit of oil to the cylinders.

Re:Back to my head gasket help?
 

Yea I took them out with the order in the book, I started takeing the bold out with a breaker bar, than went to an impact gun becuse I couldn't break them loose, they were that hard to get out. I thought by putting gas in the cylinders it was easier to see if you had a bad ring, becasue gas is thinner than oil it would seep threw the broke part of the ring faster.

Re:Back to my head gasket help?
 

ive never had first hand experience with this problem but ive heard that sometimes when an engine gets flooded really bad the rings get "washed out" and only exacerbates the compression problem b/c theres no longer any oil.

anyone that is more knowledgeable chime in and help this man out...

also don't forget to change out your oil with all that gas floating in there

Re:Back to my head gasket help?
 

Nice vocabulary dude! ;D But seriously, yeah, you're supposed to use oil. The gas washes out the rings so you won't get any kind of true reading out of it. I'd say change your oil, turn it over by hand a few times and then try it with oil instead. You might also wanna check your valves too if it's a slow leak.