ok i got this ex coupe from this kid he said the water pump was bad and needs a new 1 so i put water in and water comes out from behind the timing belt cover like normal im like ok...so i buy a new water pump and when i took the timing belt cover off i noticed the belt looked loose..i yanked on it and it was broken ....he said he was driving it and all the sudden it over heated so he put it away...he said it made no knocking or anything....do you guys think my engine is ---- or should i buy a new timing belt and and change the pump and see what happenes?

 

Take your valve cover off and see if your if your valves are bent, you never know you might get lucky and be fine.

 

Need to do more than pull the vaalve cover to see if you have bent valves. If the t belt was broken 99 percent of the time you have bent valves. Pull the head


lay it on its side with the exhaust side towards the sky and poor water into the ports. If water leaks out of the combustion chamber you have a bent valve

repaeat on intake side.

 

this really sucks ...do you think any thing could be wrong with the bottom end ? because if not i could still use everything else

 

From my experince the bottom end should be fine but pull the head and make sure

 

thanks for the help......now back to wrenching on the beast

 

why not just compression check each cylindar

 

would that work?....how would i know if i had a bent vlave by doing that?

 

It will work to some extent but really in my view you need to pull the head. A slightly bent valve may not show on a compression test but drive on it for a prolonged time and it will cause some major damage. Dont guess do it right

 

so pull the head try the water thing and what ever happens happens right...but what are the chaces of it being