I went to the track a couple weeks back and the car ran find didn't misshift/over rev at all. Three days later I was comming home from work and started to hear a tick noise. Came home and thought nothing of it woke up next day I didn't hear anything. Now its back and its ticking pretty loud and only ticks at around 3k rpm. I just adjusted the valves and three off them on the intake side were a bit off. Also checked for compression and they read find nothing looked wrong. Can anyone give me some symptons of a bent valve? I need to do a leak down test but dont have one does autozone rent them out?

 

your rods are knocking waiting to be shot

 

i did a compression test and it look fine to me 250 on all four

 

bump for some more info.. Checked my spark plugs and the white part of the spark plug is turning black...

 

well its my understanding that if your spark plugs were indeed going bad, youd be lacking compression. But, I could be wrong.

Does it drop revs, stall, bog, anything? Just a tick? I mistook my rod knock/prefiring for a tick too. 2 Day later, bam boom rod gone

 

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as long as the plugs are there, you will have compression. unless one is pretty loose.

edit: unless the gaskets are bad or dryrotting or something. not common unless the car has been sitting a long time. occasionally the housing can crack too.


Modified by limpmode at 12:14 PM 3/21/2006

 

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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1565144

 

how far off were the valves?

 

Try doing a valve adjustment, cause they're most likely out of sink....