New here. 213000 miles on engine. Busted the timing belt (yeah, should have known better to replace it long ago). After replacing the belt, turns out number 3 had no compression. Turns out at least one valve is bent. Besides replacing the valve, should the valve seat be replaced? The engine ran great before this. No check engine light before the belt busted.

 

Chances are you can just throw a new oem valve in there, lap it and be fine but I would take a close look at the seat while your in there. If its damaged it damaged, you could buy a new head, get yours rebuilt or have just the one damaged seat replaced. I bent both exhaust valves on one of the cylinders in my EJ22 Subaru Impreza engine when one of the toothed style idlers for the timing belt seized up due to a bad bearing, the seats were fine.

 

It might be faster and not much to simply buy a used head and throw it on. My local pick and pull has heads (if you pull themm off yourself) for about $100. But if it's just one valve and you are good with taking it apart, as stated above, you can replace the one, get it to seat by lapping it, and be on your way.

 

You will want the valve guides checked on whatever valves were bent in addition to replacing the valves. Majority of the time when valves are bent(especially exhaust valves since the OEM guides are brittle cast iron) then the guides will get chipped or develop cracks.

 

Thanks all for your input. I presume replacing the valve doesn't take much, but pulling the head looks like a lot of work according to the factory manual. I would do it, but I don't have time. It runs on it's own power. I'm selling it. When my five days is up if I haven't sold it I'll list it here. Any idea whether people here would want a project car? All I'm getting locally is low ballers wanting to junk the car and part it out. In my mind everything on the car is repairable, however obviously if one took it to a shop it would cost way more than the car is worth. But, if someone is into doing their own labor, it could be fixed for the cost of parts. Any thoughts, suggestions, am I wasting my time thinking I could find a good home for this car?

 

It all depends on what someone wants it for. Buying a car that I know needs work is a very devalued car. add that it's 20 years old, and its' worth maybe $500 to me (for example, I'm not telling you what to price it for or judging whatever you are hoping to get for it, just my opinion, nothing more). But, depends what I might do with it. Do I need a car right now? No. Can I flip it for some profit after putting in the time to get it working? Maybe I could sell it quickly for $1500, so after the work, maybe I make 600 bucks on it. Is that worth it to me? No.

If you don't want it, maybe just donate it to charity , and they will fix it or part it out.

It's hard to see how little it's actually worth, where I live I can pick up a functioning non-broken Accord for about $1500 to $2500 all the time. I bought mine for $1800 awhile ago as an example and it ran and passed inspection.

I don't think I would worry about a good home unless you go out, find someone who is desperately in need of a car and willing to work on it, and just give it to them. I did that with a car years ago. I inherited a station wagon, but realized I didn't need it and wanted someone to use it but not take it apart, so I gave it to a young mother after fixing it up enough to pass inspection, where she drive it for years, and then also donated it to another young mother. Otherwise, you will need to put on your objective brain and just decide if it's worth fixing to you, and dump it otherwise.