Can you Drive around safely with bent Valves?
Please dont flame

 

Try it and let us know.

 

that really depends on what you mean by safely.

if you mean safe for the driver, yeah, it'll be ok.

if you mean safe for the engine, hell no. it'll cause further damage until there's nothing usable.

 

its just for a few days i have no other transportation to work


"Try it and let us know."
i dont get it do people get off flaming other people





[Modified by SlowSOHC, 9:51 PM 1/30/2003]

 

if you consider that a flame you're a wuss.

 

That is indeed a very very stupid question my friend. but wait the saying goes theres no stupid questions just ........

 

depends on how badly they are bent

 

Friend of mine did it for like 2 weeks... nothing severe happened

 

i woudnt recommend it. it's better to be safe (for your engine) than sorry. lets say you drive it and the motor break down on you, then you have no transportation, and your car gets towed away

 

not flaming you, but depending on how bent they are, you can do some major engine damage and if they get snapped and thrown into the engine, all I can say is you better have a lot of money to do a rebuild.

 

friend of mine did it in his delsol for a couple week. just one cyl. was bad tho...replaced the head and all was good.

 

your threads title answers your question, but ive got a dumb question, too. how did you bend a valve? did your timing belt break? did you fix that?