On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:02:16 +0000, Paul Mennen wrote:

Not knowing much about engines I didn't realize that it
is inprobable that a valve could stick for that long.


Well, I'm actually not sure you have the evidence to support that it stuck
consecutively. Would it still cause the problem if it stuck and released,
worked, and got stuck again over that same period of time? Whereby, it
stopped being stuck following some amount of wear-n-tear of the various
parts? Meaning, just for sake of explanation, if we alternated events of
open, closed, open, stuck, open, mostly closed, open, stuck, etc, or some
other random combination, wouldn't you still see the same type of
measurements? My point being, do you really have the evidence to say that
it simply stuck open over all those cycles?

Cheers,

Greg