what are the symptons? TIA

 

Do a compression and leakdown test. Also, you'll more then likely you'll hear something out of whack with a bent valve.

 

your engine would be running like crap, it will feel weak

 

Lumpy idle. Car still drives decent at low rpm but bogs down horrible when you give it gas. These were my symptoms when my timing belt slipped a few teeth. Heck I didn't think it was valves at first and spent two days trying to fix a bad gas problem (or so I thought)

 

when i had two intake valves bent on #1 i was backfiring out the intake and running on three cylinders, it sounded like ***

its not a hard thing to miss

 

do the dollar bill trick. place a dollar bill right in front of your exhaust with the engine running at idle. the dollar bill should be pulsing out away from the exhaust. if it get suck in towards the inside of the exhaust then you know theres a problem

 

dammit i think my valves are bent ....

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yup...

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yup...i think mine was off by 1..

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will do asap...

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its not a hard thing to miss</TD></TR></TABLE>

hmm does sound pretty weird at times...

 

I once had four exhaust valves bent so slightly that they didn't show up on a compression test. Adjust your valves and run the engine, then check the clearances again. If they're out of whack then you know you have a problem.

 

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will do on the weekends...college sucks

will it be okay if i drive it daily? say rev no over 3k and about 25 miles a day?

 

Thats all up to you, you will start wearing other things like valves guides though so keep that in mind.

 

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will do on the weekends...college sucks

will it be okay if i drive it daily? say rev no over 3k and about 25 miles a day? </TD></TR></TABLE>

I wouldnt drive it at all unless you have no choise.. I bent the valves in my prelude and kept driving it for a little while and the bent valves wore there own seat into the head..

 

If one of your cylinder is out, your car should sound like a motorcyle.

 

drill out ur valve guides and u will b fine. lol jk. not all of these hapen when u bend some valves, if u see any of these symptoms you prolly have a bent valve. biggest one is no power when u rev. bad stuff. lol peace

 

Do a quick vacuum test; it'll tell you if your valves are bent.

 

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never did a vaccum test before but will look into it thanks

 

Vacuum gauges are only like 20 bucks and can tell you a lot.

 

vacum test? is that like a compression test or do you mean hook it up to ur nitake manifold? i never heard of that before, more info would be great

 

okay did the "dollar" test and seemed normal (being blown away from the exhaust) waiting to do a vaccum test later tonight going to autozone to rent one *finger crossed*

 

how can you tell if your valves are bent and the head is off the car? i have a b16 head and some of the valves are not completely closed, they also have a redish color to them

thanks

 

with cams removed, all valves should be fully closed, if not, probably have bent valves.

 

without removing the cams you wouldnt be able to tell? thanks for the reply by the way