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Old Jan 4, 2006 | 05:31 PM
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What are the symtoms of a bent valve?????? My ls all motor just started to sputter during accel... yesterday and now it sputters all the time....
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Usually slightly bent valves misfire at low RPM. Did you overrev the engine?
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no, I have not ran it hard latley but it rained yesterday I think maby water got into my CAI... It seams like I am running on one cylinder..
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Old Jan 4, 2006 | 05:40 PM
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What car do you have? Are there any CELs?
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Old Jan 4, 2006 | 05:43 PM
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It is an integra ls all motor... 10.5 com, crower stageII cams and 1 over valves.. I thought it may be a vaccume leake at first but it got extremly worse when i went to work...
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what are CELs????
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I would suggest running a compression test. I assume that you have an OBDI ECU?
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never mind.... NO thats whats wierd there are no check engine lights on.... any other suggestions??
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yes its OBD1
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OBDII would have told you which cylinders were misfiring. The compression test is a good, cheap first step.
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Thanks a lot!!! I appreciate it!!!!!
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