after the last time i turned my motor off, there was a repetitive clicking sound for about three seconds. i guessing my valves are bent. any advice would be appreciated. thanks.

 

do a compression test?

 

is there a story behind this? or were u just driving home and parked it and it made that noise?

 

in case you didn't knkow valves just dont bent (don't take offence)..... they have to be over revved or come into contact with something, so unless you did one of theose things i dont think they are bent. To see if you have bent valves you can do a leak down test and that will tell u!
good luck man!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 92`Legend &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">is there a story behind this? or were u just driving home and parked it and it made that noise?</TD></TR></TABLE>well, i bought the car used a few months ago. i drove it home and parked it. i dropped the oil pan, put a new gasket, new oil, and new tranny fluid. i put the 4-2 section of my JUN header on only and started the car up. twice for maybe five minutes and once for maybe ten minutes. then, after the third time, after turning the car, off it made the sound. i'm thinking maybe i burned the valves with the open header and they could not cool???

 

a compression test will give you a good idea, but symptoms of a bent valve are rough idle, difficulty increasing rmps, poor running, excessive gas consumption. not however that one of these symptoms does not mean you have bent valves.

if you are getting a lot of noise from the valves, you should do a valve lash adjustment on a cold engine first.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kablamo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">a compression test will give you a good idea, but symptoms of a bent valve are rough idle, difficulty increasing rmps, poor running, excessive gas consumption. not however that one of these symptoms does not mean you have bent valves.

if you are getting a lot of noise from the valves, you should do a valve lash adjustment on a cold engine first.</TD></TR></TABLE>do you think the open header at idle for this short period of time could have caused this?

 

I doubt it, maybe you didn't put enough oil in? did u read your manual? Vavles maybe sticky from not having enough oil. Makes a ticking sound at idle. Is it still making this noise when you start it up?

 

The best way to check for bent valves is first a compression test and SECOND a leakdown test.

 

just do a leakdown. that will tell you the compression AND if something is fucked up. it sounds like you just need a vlave adjustment.

 

i've heard other cars click slowly a few times after the car's turned off.

Don't worry, if you had bent valves, you'd notice it...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slowone &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> after the last time i turned my motor off, there was a repetitive clicking sound for about three seconds. i guessing my valves are bent. any advice would be appreciated. thanks.</TD></TR></TABLE>

click sounds coming from head?
Welcome to H series.

Check your oil.

 

running the car with no headers will not hurt anything unless you cause something to catch fire. it just looks really cool

i'm not sure what engine/year car you have, but i'd say most likely you just need a valve adjustment. if you have a 96 and newer car, and you bent valves, odds are the engine light would come up as OBDII would pick up something fishy

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kablamo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">running the car with no headers will not hurt anything unless you cause something to catch fire. it just looks really cool

i'm not sure what engine/year car you have, but i'd say most likely you just need a valve adjustment. if you have a 96 and newer car, and you bent valves, odds are the engine light would come up as OBDII would pick up something fishy </TD></TR></TABLE>

nice wish.

CEL does not pick up anything.
The car just runs like ***..

 

i just got done replacing an old, cracked oil pan gasket and filled the car up with new oil. i know there's enough oil in there. it's a '94 vtec motor, can you think of anything else. i heard the sound after the car was turned off, and maybe once while the car was just sitting there idling. while the car was idling it lasted maybe two seconds, but was loud enough to be heard across my street. it then went away and the idle was normal again. can you think of anything else besides low oil? thanks.