35 or 6 to 5

35.

That's the number. It is a great number when talking air pressure for your tires or if you just celebrated your 40th birthday. Unfortunately, when talking cylinder compression...it's not so good. The suspected non-firing cylinder turned out to be one that was wheezing along whilst its 5 other physically fit siblings did all the work with a normal compression reading.

According to Dad's meeting with Bubba, this is where we stand:

"He did a compression check on the cylinders. Our friend the cylinder in the back on the left side as you look at the engine from the front (the one with the fouled spark plug) has let us down. Bubba said he got a reading of about 35 on the compression meter and a normal cylinder should read about 165. So that sucker isn't pulling a fourth of his share!! And that explains his initial feeling that Evidence was "...running on only 5 cylinders...". In addition, he thinks that maybe it's got a burnt valve in that cylinder.

As far as the consequences, assuming of course that something else doesn't happen as a result of this, he said we will waste a lot of gas and we will have no power when we probably need it......But we would probably get there."

And get there we will as Team Justice will forge ahead without changing horses (mainly because we can't) and decisively confirm once and for all that we are most definitely not running on all cylinders.