Picking up a 95 Accord (f22**) tommorrow. Has a broken timing belt,and the owners paid a shop to put a new one on thinking there was no valve damage. Well car wont run so vavles are prolly bentup. What are my chances of the pistons being fine? Anyone have any experience where it was possible just to replcae with a good head? Just wondering. Getting the car really cheap and down mind swapping in a complete motor. Gues i will just pull the head and see whats cookin.

 

If the car has a good price.... buy it. F22 lasts for very long..... so... sometimes fixing it... isn't bad at all.
In the worst case, you could go get the part or parts needed from a motor at a junkyard or just get the entire motor if you want a f22b1 or b2.....

 

I am definitely buying it. I am going to pull the head right away. If the pistons are scarred up from the valves I will just swap the whole motor. Car is in good shape. And yes extremely cheap.

 

then by all means pounce on it, f22 engines can take a serious beating

 

I kill stock F series engines in record time.

to the OP - you might be able to get away w/ just head work, but for the time and cost of the head work you could get a junkyard engine for the same or less $$ and be back up and running very quickly.

 

DO IT! I remember buying a 94 accord a year ago with a slipped timing belt for $200. Valves were bent, got a new head for $150 and voila.

 

Unless the belt broke with the car moving quickly and the driver costed to a stop your pistons should be in good shape still. Go ahead and fix it!

 

Ok I got the car. It was raining all day though so i havent taken it off the trailer. But I did drive it up on my trailer no problem. The guy said it will run fine for about 3 minutes (assuming this means while it is cold) then it stalls and doesnt want to run. The motor is very quiet when it is running, and i didnt hear anything out of the ordinary.

Little background: 95 LX F22B2, 145,xxx
Previous owners took the car into midas with a soft brake pedal. Midas replaced master cylinder, pads, turned rotors, and drums.

Car drove like shyt on the way home. Midas talked them into a full tune up, platinum plugs, wires, rotor, cap, oil/oil filter..... Car still ran bad told them it needed a timing belt. Replaced timing belt, and still fubared. Long story, but people dropped 1,400 and car was still messed up after taking it in for just brakes.

The car idles higher than normal, and the guy told me midas had advanced the timing to see if thta helped and thta is why it was idling high.

Where should I start first? Check timing, then compression test? Not sure I have time this weekend to mess with this one. I have to help a friend with a motor swap in a teg.

Anyone else think if it were damaged from the timing belt it would run bad all the time? If it drops off when it is hot I am thinking more along the lines of a head gasket?

Tell me what you think. TIA

 

Fuel pump?

 

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Anyone else think if it were damaged from the timing belt it would run bad all the time? TIA </TD></TR></TABLE> Yes, it would run bad all the time but you still need to open it up and look. That would be your first step.