How To Find Out if Your Engine Has Bent Valves

36 thoughts on “How To Find Out if Your Engine Has Bent Valves”

1. Great!

2. I just have the same problem, same n14 engine. same Cylinder 3 has 0 psi and the rest of cylinders have the same pressure. Happy days! Thanks Erric!

3. Hi Eric,
   I have a car with noisy valves KIA Sportage :(,
   in your example why would three cylinders be OK and only one have bent valves. What would cause that?
   thanks

4. Why consumers still buy interference engine is beyond me..Manufacturers need to just STOP! its cheap, weak unreliable design!

5. Wooo lost my timing belt last night, let’s see how bad it is 😅

6. You can have a bent valve and it still seals duded. Leak down and compression test will not tell you anything in that case. A valve with a slight bend can seal but cause excess valve noise.

7. Hey Eric! I’ve owned my Infiniti 05’ G35 6MT since 2006 currently with 123k miles. It’s making the ticking sound but has no leaks around gasket and block. I changed out new sensors, solenoids, spark plugs, brakes, etc. should I spend the extra money to get the ticking sound checked and then have it fixed? Or sell the car and drive it into the ground? How much would a job like this will run? Any advice will help. Thanks.

8. 90 is good?

9. I believe the service manual says anything under 150psi is poor on this engine. My identical car gets slightly over 200psi on my cheap gauge.

10. Favorite car youtuber.

11. How can we straightened bent valve stem?

12. 6 bar isnt enof for the petrol engine

13. Suppose it isn't a bent cylinder head but a sticking one that is dirty in some way? Could that cause low compression in Cylinder number three?

14. I found this really useful and excellent very good straight to the point no waffle great stuff 🙂

15. Why interference engines are built is a mystery to me.
    Like glass shoes.
    Stay gold.

16. I have Subaru which is a interference engine and it had 0 comp on cyl 3 and 1 which are on the right side of the engine I checked the timing belt and it was off by 5 teeth. I realigned the belt and it now all cyl show 150. Is it possible to have bent valves and good compression? Do I need to do the leak down test?

17. informative, thanks for sharing.

18. Sounds just like mine! Think I have a bent rod

19. I measured Valves on a 2010 Hyundai Accent to see if any were bent, timing belt broke. Visual they look fine however I found 2 valves with stems out by .010. Do valves stems have to be perfectly straight with no deflection?

20. How can i test 05 honda accord valves withouth tool

21. Question…lots of people machine the valves,… but why not just get the valves off another cars engine??? Exact Same engine size of course…jw???

22. What causes bent valves just in only one cylinder????

23. I have a 2.3 l Ford , crank no start .0 compression on 4 cylinders . I pulled the cover and found the cams were out of time ,possible tooth jump. Is it possible on this interference motor that timing jump bent all or half the valves and still continues to crank? I know this is a crap motor . I will try a leak down.

24. On an interference engine would'nt cranking cause a valve to hit piston?

25. Without doing wet compression we can't conclude either it's piston rings issue or valve leaking…
    If in wet compression, reading improved not improved that means from valve it's leaking..
    If reading improved means rings have leak.
    If two cylinder HV low compression then gasket burnt..

26. Broke the belt when it let loose bent valves

27. Hey man love you videos been watching you for more than 5 years now, where can I find a good mechanic like you any tips I live in Canada Toronto

28. Those Pittsburgh compression tester are junk. They always read low.

29. What caused it to become bent??

30. shit. my ride does the same…bent valves it is! lol

31. I just bought a used head for $70,the guy said he pulkled it from a running engine,when I got home i poured water into the intake and exhaust ports and all were slightly leaking,I tapped on the valves and that sealed it more spo my first 3 thoughts were eather bad springs/bad valve guid or seal causing valves to misalign/or bent valves,When I took them out they were kinda hard to remove but once removed I can see just by looking they were bent.Ths guy even told me he didnt clean the head to show me its condition as it was but after cleaning it up there were obvious dings from a broken or skipped timing belt,The same reason why I needed this head to begin with.what other tecjniques can you do by visual once there out?do you roll them or something because for me just standing them up i could see they were bent to one side then I would rotate and they were now bent to the other side,I also cleaned the carbon off the top so that wasnt making the valve tilt.

32. I have a 09 R56 JCW with the same problem. Took it to Mini and they said cylinder 3 has 0 compression. They told me I needed a new engine. Once I got the car back the paper work said it is possibly a bad piston ring. I am pretty sure I have bent valves too that don’t require a new $10k engine.

33. Always a pleasure to watch and learn from your uploads Eric. No heavy metal, expert knowledge/teaching and a sense of humour make your channel my first stop. Thankyou, and greetings from Western Australia.

34. sound so bad 😂

35. Listen to that baby purr!

36. 1:20 was cool. Like he was putting tactical gear on lol.

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