compression test is good. All a leak down will give you is a rate and the ability to pinpoint it to valves or rings.I 'would suggest you do a leak down check espacily on cylinder 1. They are know to have valve seat issues, or do what everyone else is doing, just drive it til it dies or fixes itself. There is lots of minis here with bad engines, and everybody selling them is saying it needs new spark plugs.
As mentioned, compression good. Ran the injector test from the scan tool, checks good. It's timing, I'm certain of it.So not spark, as the swap of plug and coil shows they are good. Next is injector and compression, this is assuming that the repair was correct on all counts.
Did she come home with a new car?LOL!
Wife stopped into the mini dealership in town today to pick up my TTY cam bolts. Service manager heard her talking about my working on her mini. He came over and talked to me on he phone trying to make it sound like it was waaaayyy to complicated for anyone besides the dealer techs to work on it. That they could fix it in an hour and I'd be old, grey and have pulled my hair out before I figured it out.
I asked him if I could bounce a few questions off him and his answer was a hearty "no no no". We don't do that here. That's ok, I get that. Nothing for free, I understand when a guy is running a business about "not giving away a job".
Then he started going on about a 10,000 scan machine, a 20,000 this and that, etc and there was no way I could troubleshoot this thing at home.
I totally get they have to make a living, but don't think someone doesn't know what they're talking about just because they don't work for you and don't try and suck cash out of me by trying to make me think this thing is more complicated than the space shuttle. .
Some guys........
My thought as well. One tooth is a huge change in a interference engine.If the cams are out of position, shouldn't it affect all 4 cylinders?
Greg
The way the n12 works is the two cam gears and the crank gear have no alignment marks or keys. The tool is supposed to lock the crank and the cams in the timing postion and then you secure the gears by torquing the bolts.Assuming the cams were locked in position with that special tool, it is odd that the one or both cams would be out by 1 tooth. I am scratching my noggin.
Pierre
VVT…or in “Honda speak”: V-tech yo!If the cams are out of position, shouldn't it affect all 4 cylinders?
Greg