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#1 Cylinder no compression

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I am disappointed that's there is no discussion about this. Talking to the service manager this is a very common problem. #1 cylinder has no compression. The other 3 seem normal. This car has 180,000 interstate miles. He explained that it had to do with the instant start feature, #1 cylinder is engineered with higher compression. Said I could replace with a crate engine. I want to see why. Disassembly will begin in the coming days and weeks.
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I forgot to mention that Kia has an engine service kit for when we do shortblocks and I'm nearly certain that sometimes I order it even if I just need a handful of gaskets as the whole kit is cheaper than just a couple of gaskets. The kit will come with head gasket, head bolts and a whole bunch. I think the only gaskets I order seperate because they're not in the kit is the small gasket for GDI pump, for some reason it's not in with the valve cover gasket and the gasket for the OCV. Other than those 2 pretty much every other gasket is in there.
Here is a picture of a kit I got today for a 1.6 (the OCV gasket I mentioned is for the 1.6 not your 2.0)

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Here is a picture of a kit I got today for a 1.6 (the OCV gasket I mentioned is for the 1.6 not your 2.0)
Looks to me like a job I was thinking diy, then it turned into omg.
Where do all these go? :oops: :LOL:
Looks to me like a job I was thinking diy, then it turned into omg.
Where do all these go? :oops: :LOL:
It's easy if you're familiar with it, I can do these with my eyes closed but give me a piece of IKEA furniture and I'm cursing lol
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We went to IKEA once. After a while, ready to leave, we could not find the exit.
Were almost ready to pop the emergency door and flee while the alarm sounded,
But finally found the way we came in and went out the entrance. Never again. :ROFLMAO:

And yes on the familiar.
They say iirc, spend 10,000 hours on something and that's the minimum to gain expertise. (y)
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