hello hope it works this time. With my car I burnt the block/head between cylinders 3 & 5. when running I put my hand on the exh and it pulled on my hand twiceish and pushed twice. It pushed due to the 1 and 7 where still running properly, but on the other 2 when one was on a down stroke it pulled air thru the other cylinders exh valve. The intake was closed so thats why it'll pull on the exh. Now the paper wouldn't stay stuck to the pipe because of the other cyl. exh. but it will pull on the paper at that one point. I'm not very good at explaining so sorry if this dosen't make sence. > > > I read somewhere where u could tell if an engine > had > > > a burnt exhaust > > > valve by holding apiece of paper up to the > tail-pipe > > > and if it HAD a > > > burnt ex. valve it would suck the paper up to > the > > > pipe, but if they were > > > all fine, the paper would be constantly being > pushed > > > away. > > > Is this true? <snip> > > > Neal Zimmerman, eugene Oregon > > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs