TkPrez

How likely, or in what ways can u bend your valves on the zx motor

iamericgee

What valve??

NismoPick

Ya know... those valves that suck air into the engine, and exhaust it out.

If you screw up the timing chain marks, yes, the valves can / will hit the pistons. If you have the low compression or turbo pistons (dished), the damage is less than flat tops.

Are you asking because you think you screwed up?

TkPrez

Yess I think I did. On a high rpm'd down shift the car turnd off on me when I was about to catch up to sumone. My pops is my main mechanic for my z nd my gst, he said I jumpd out of time. I had another mechanic to work on it at home, hell finish up tomorrow. Jus wanna know if I should get my bubble bursted now with peoples ideas if I tortured my engine too much it gave up on me finally after two yrs

NismoPick

Huh?

Turned off? Did it make any noises? Did it re-start? Does it have power? Ya know... minor details you left out.

It would break the chain if it "jumped time".

So... what did that mechanic say? What was wrong?

m e s o c o n f u s e d . . . . . .

TkPrez

It just turned off, and didn't want to restart. We moved the timing so it can restart and drove it home, rich as hell though but was able to drive home. I just bought the gear and chain and had a guy replace it for me since I didn't have the time to do so.

WildmaN

Maybe your dizzy moved on you. You have two locking nuts on it. One on the top and one on the bottom. If you were able to drive it home. I don't think you jumped time. Besides it is nearly impossible to do on a timing chain engine.

TkPrez

Where do I find the dizzy at? Do I lossen it up again or? When we figured it jumpd time was because the distributer rotor was facin a different direction than the piston

TkPrez

Ahh the rotor gotcha, not familiar w the car slang .lol.