Compression Testing Junkyard Engines, In The Junkyard. Know What You Are Getting Before You Buy, Because This Engine Is Junk!

Here’s another junkyard video from Richard Holdener, the king of junkyard horsepower, and one that teaches you how to choose the right engine at the junkyard. This one hits close to home as Richard needs one too replace the Ameri-Barra that he strapped to the dyno but that has no compression in some of the cylinders. Sometimes you end up with a loser when you grab an engine from the wrecking yard. It’s just part of the deal. Hell, with as many engines as Richard has pulled from the yard there is no way he can be too made about getting one that sucks. The odds are usually in his favor, but not with the Atlas 4200, aka Ameri-Barra engine in the video below.

We’re putting these two videos together so you can feel Richard’s pain during the testing of the first engine so you can understand his motivation to do some testing when trying to find another one. Oh and did we forget to mention how many head bolts broke while trying to get them out of this engine? Yeah, it isn’t pretty, but you are going to want to watch because you just have to laugh. After all, if you don’t laugh then you will cry and nobody wants to see a grown man cry.

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