Mine has been consistantly throwing a cylinder three misfire code, so I have a feeling the problem lies there. I have replaced the spark plug, and this past weekend I had the positive battery cable disconnected for most of the day on Saturday, but she's still running like poop. With no compression in the third cylinder, I'm concentrating my efforts there.
Haven't found anyone with a bore scope yet, but found a few cheap "scope" cameras on ebay that might do the trick for me to take a look in that cylinder to see if the valves are stuck open. Looked at the shop manual to see how to pull the valve covers off, and it basically tells me to take half the dang engine apart just to pull the cover. That doesn't seem to make sense to me, so I'm going to attempt to get it off without pulling the fan, fan clutch, timing belt covers and timing belt. Hopefully with the valve cover off I will be able to see if one of the valves is stuck.
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