Q: Overheating car test

asked by on August 11, 2016

Okay so today I did a test on my cooling system and I couldn't evendors get it up to 7 psi and it would almost immediately loose pressure a friend told me to remove the air cleaner and listen in the intake for for a leak or a slushing sound and I couldn't hear anything and then I listen next to the head and I could swear I heard little dripping in the cylinder I did a compression test and all of the cylinders where about 130 to 135 and the 3 cylinder on the front head would only get to 120 -125 and the first cylinder was 120 at first to and I did the test again at it was 130 any help would be greatly appreciated

My car has 110000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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