recently i was driving on campus, and as i pulled into my parking space my car just died. at first i thought it may be dead battery, then i noticed that all of my electronics stayed on. as i tried to turn it on, it sounded like it wanted to start, but wouldn't so i thought starter, but it wasn't that either, so my next thought was either not getting spark or not getting fuel. checked both systems and they checked out fine. my next step was to try to push start, and it would not start. my last effort was to check for blown head gasket. my dad's mechanic did this and did not report back to me so i don't know what he saw, but not a blown headgasket. he did run a compression test though and he numbers ended up being 0 in three of the cylinders. so my next step was to swap motors, but my dad's mechanic said the possible cause is the distributor... is this possible, that the distributor causes the motor to have no compression??? i'm confused... help me out or at least explain it to me please, am i being bullshitted???

 

help please?

 

He got compression on 1 cylinder? If so what was the numbers? To me sounds like your timing belt took a ****, unless if your getting compression on 1 cylinder.

I seriously dont see how the dist. could do that. Sure if your timing is off your compression is off but not 0. Something else is wrong.

 

timing belt was intact, just replaced two months ago... all i was told was that there was no compression in three cylinders, never told which ones... any other probabilities??? thanks

 

I think luserkid is onto something here. Check to see if the timing belt jumped a tooth. That could cause no compression. You said you changed it two months ago so probably the belt was too loose.

 

hmm i'll look at that tomorrow, i'm seriously just sick of dealing with this stupid dx motor, might swap to a b18... any other suggestions?

 

any other clues???

 

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Yeah, find a new mechanic.

I'm about 90% sure your timing belt jumped timing.

 

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I would definatly have someone else compression test it and see what they come up with... Let us know, man. Good luck - Hope it's nothing major. But if it is, congrats on your new B18