Loud lifter tick / no compression

[beihl304]

On Friday I picked my car up from the body shop because it was getting the hood and bumper repaired and painted. Well I get there and start my car up and instantly here the worst lifter tick I have ever heard. It was extremely loud. I looked at the guy and said it wasn't making this noise when I brought it in and he pretty much shrugged his shoulders and didn't know anything. I just said what ever and drove it home but as I was leaving I couldn't even get up a slight hill flooring it in first gear and it eventually just shut off. After cranking it a few times I got it to start and managed to get home.

Once I was home I checked out my car and saw overspray on my intercooler and I had paint and bondo dust all throughout my engine bay. So that made me even more aggravated but back to the problem. I changed my oil seeing if it would solve the problem and it didn't. I let it run for a while and then it got louder and eventually died. The next day I did a compression test and only cylinder 2 was showing around 130 and the rest had like 10 psi.

Any ideas on what could have happened? Could my lifters miraculously lock up and cause the valves to bend? Sorry for the story but any help is appreciated.

 

[Absit]

Certainly sounds like bent valves to me, almost like your timing got bumped, check timing

 

[beihl304]

Yea I am going to check timing for sure. I read somewhere about lifters possibly keeping valves open. Can that be possible?

 

[SrKegler]

Definately sounds like the belt jumped a few teeth. How many miles were on the belt? Either way, pull the front cover and see what the problem is. Doubt very much that its stuck lifters.

 

[beihl304]

Actually I just replaced the belt around 1000 miles ago. I'm going to check the timing right now and pull the valve cover. I post what I find. I just wonder what that shop did if anything for his to happen.

Well checked timing by putting a straw in cylinder one and rotating till it was at top dead center and this is what I found.

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So looks like it's bent valves.

 

[SrKegler]

Jumped teeth, belt might have been on to tight.

 

[Absit]

Yup, that's enough to bend valves!

 

[delta448]

Looks like someone at the shop took it for a joyride and bounced it off the rev limiter...

 

[92AWDHX40]

Time for a valve job, thats way off.

 

[beihl304]

Looks like someone at the shop took it for a joyride and bounced it off the rev limiter...

Do you think that could be why? That is what i was thinking but I have no idea how I could prove that and is there anything i can do to make them pay for it?

I already bought a used head for now as i realized it is cheaper than buying valves.

 

[akquad1]

That happened to mine a few years back immediately after a belt change. The cause was the tensioner wasn't properly installed. Instead of applying tension to the belt then tightening the bolts, they just tightened the bolts and pulled the retaining pin and let the tensioner take up the slack. It was only about 1k miles and then it did exactly the same thing on startup one day.