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Re: Using Smoke in place of a leak down test
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 3/28/2015 1 Reply

The only issue I would see is that all rings even if they are new have a small amount of leakage because of the end gaps. and you would get some smoke past the rings into the crankcase. The leak tester gives you a reading of the amount of leakage which is val... Login to read more.

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