AnthonyHardy2
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- Aug 31, 2010
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- Oakland, CA
So my friend changed his timing belt on his B230FT and after lining up the timing marks the car refused to start. I suspected the harmonic balancer slipped so I pulled the #1 spark plug and stuck a socket extension in the hole to verify if the engine was at TDC. The timing mark was off by about 90* so we changed the balancer and retimed the engine. We then managed to completely forget that the extension was still in the #1 hole and attempted to start the engine. This was obviously a really stupid mistake and the engine seized against the extension. Now a compression test on that cylinder shows no compression at all so I'm thinking we either bent a valve or managed to punch a hole in the top of the piston. Either way it looks like it's time for a new engine but I'm just curious what actually broke
TLDR: The engine was cranked with a socket extension in the #1 spark plug hole and now has no compression on that cylinder. How dead is this engine?
TLDR: The engine was cranked with a socket extension in the #1 spark plug hole and now has no compression on that cylinder. How dead is this engine?