Originally Posted by 3bears

used engines are a crap shoot. hopefully you can trade that one back for a better. glad you checked b4 putting it in. some yards have a print out of compression etc on the used engines that they do b4 pulling. That is if you can trust that. In some of their defense...of even a good wrecker...they really dont know...and a dry compression test can fool you and them. I totaled a nice yota...that I knew had a slightly leaking head gasket from an over heated engine...blew a radiator hose in the middle of bum frick no place...( had just started to leak shown by a leak down and radiator dye test) and I bet the limited test that the wreckers throw at it would not show.