[john.harrill]

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Originally Posted by velocedoc I will jump in here on this about bent valves. I owned for several years a Honda CRXSi. A car I should have never sold. Why I sold it was because the seats were a killer on a trip, but now that I commute 22 miles to work, it would have been a blast to rocket down the freeway. I am digressing...When I bought the car it ran great. Just had a fresh headgasket/timing belt/water pump installed and I bought it from a local Dodge used car lot. The more miles I put on the car, the worse it started to run. Finally it just refused to go up a hill with out alot of effort. I ran a compression test and it wasn't pretty. I pulled the head and a local machine shop that came highly recommended pulled the head down. All of the valves were bent just enough to barely seal. Someone had mistimed and spun the engine over, kissing all of the valves to the pistons. The only way we could tell was to chuck the valves in a valve grinder and touch the stone to the face. There was roughly a 75% contact area on the seat. New valves fixed the problem and lightened my wallet. I put 100,000 miles on the motor and got alot of smiles back for th effort. The dealer took the car in trade as the car had just had the work done to on it. After I had put so many miles on the car it was up to me to eat the valve job. The only way you can tell which valves are toast is as I described above. At this point with the heads off, I would just put in all new valves. You might want to check the valve lifters while you have the heads apart just as a precaution. One question I have is it going to be an issue to put those studs back in the block?