Hi guys,
Just a question for you about buying a cheap 8 to fix up and enjoy as a weekend toy hobby. I had a look at one yesterday – it’s a ’55 192 on 60k miles. It’s very cheap because it needs new brakes, tyres and exhaust plus a service and the bodywork needs some love. I just wanted to ask about hot starting;
Cold it started fine.
Hot is started fine also, but just took slightly longer. I noticed that it sounded like it had the uprated starter motor (much faster turn over). I’m just a little suspicious that its had that fitted to hide poor compression. It’s not had coils, sparks or leads for quite some time (no evidence of any of those ever being done actually). It did drive fine though. Bit of whine from the belt.
Without paying for a compression test (last one cost me £160 @ Mazda, and this car is only worth £1000), is there anything I can do to check it out a little better? I’m happy to do the normal service and garage work on it myself, but rebuilds are beyond my skills& facilities!
Should I go for it, run some seafoam / cleaner through it, give it a thrashing and cross my fingers?
My last 8 was a 231 (’54) on similar mileage and I never had any compression issues.
Please don’t flame me – I know I could pay for a compression test, but would rather save the money if I don’t need to do one. I had one done before at Mazda in order to sell on my 231 a few years back, it gave me good results but I wasn’t convinced that they’d actually done it properly to be honest.
Really appreciate any help :D
Tom
Just a question for you about buying a cheap 8 to fix up and enjoy as a weekend toy hobby. I had a look at one yesterday – it’s a ’55 192 on 60k miles. It’s very cheap because it needs new brakes, tyres and exhaust plus a service and the bodywork needs some love. I just wanted to ask about hot starting;
Cold it started fine.
Hot is started fine also, but just took slightly longer. I noticed that it sounded like it had the uprated starter motor (much faster turn over). I’m just a little suspicious that its had that fitted to hide poor compression. It’s not had coils, sparks or leads for quite some time (no evidence of any of those ever being done actually). It did drive fine though. Bit of whine from the belt.
Without paying for a compression test (last one cost me £160 @ Mazda, and this car is only worth £1000), is there anything I can do to check it out a little better? I’m happy to do the normal service and garage work on it myself, but rebuilds are beyond my skills& facilities!
Should I go for it, run some seafoam / cleaner through it, give it a thrashing and cross my fingers?
My last 8 was a 231 (’54) on similar mileage and I never had any compression issues.
Please don’t flame me – I know I could pay for a compression test, but would rather save the money if I don’t need to do one. I had one done before at Mazda in order to sell on my 231 a few years back, it gave me good results but I wasn’t convinced that they’d actually done it properly to be honest.
Really appreciate any help :D
Tom
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