Bent Valve! Need Opinions.
10-14-2010, 03:47 PM
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10-14-2010, 04:20 PM
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Yup it is CMS stage 2's and it was cylinder 6 that had no compression and wouldn't close. When they pulled the head I saw where the valve had hit the piston but none of the other ones had hit... Makes me think they bent it when they were pulling the old springs or installing the new valvesprings (comp hi lift springs)
10-14-2010, 04:26 PM
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I had the car towed to my house today from the shop (havnt paid for anything after the initial payment i made for the cam install, he said we will square up next week sometime but I havnt told him im upset yet) and Im having a tuner write me a base tune to get it running right and he said he will be able to tell if they are degreed in properly by the fuel trims so Ill be able to tell if they need to fix anything else.
10-14-2010, 04:30 PM
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Yup it is CMS stage 2's and it was cylinder 6 that had no compression and wouldn't close. When they pulled the head I saw where the valve had hit the piston but none of the other ones had hit... Makes me think they bent it when they were pulling the old springs or installing the new valvesprings (comp hi lift springs)
10-14-2010, 04:57 PM
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10-14-2010, 05:11 PM
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Much more likely than they just happened to bend a valve while doing a spring swap. Maybe someone that has done a few spring swaps on these heads can chime in, but I don't see how they would have bent one doing a simple spring swap.
10-14-2010, 05:16 PM
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They should fix the whole thing for free. You already paid them to install your cams. And then suddenly after they do that you have a bent valve? They shouldn't give you a "deal" on fixing it, they should fix it on them. Where I work, when we break something, we fix it.
If they won't, threaten to call the BBB, or bad mouth them. Performance shops especially need to keep a good reputation, and a bad word spreads pretty quickly. Nobody wants to spend money on some place to install expensive aftermarket parts if they heard something bad about it.
If they won't, threaten to call the BBB, or bad mouth them. Performance shops especially need to keep a good reputation, and a bad word spreads pretty quickly. Nobody wants to spend money on some place to install expensive aftermarket parts if they heard something bad about it.
10-14-2010, 06:12 PM
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They should fix the whole thing for free. You already paid them to install your cams. And then suddenly after they do that you have a bent valve? They shouldn't give you a "deal" on fixing it, they should fix it on them. Where I work, when we break something, we fix it.
If they won't, threaten to call the BBB, or bad mouth them. Performance shops especially need to keep a good reputation, and a bad word spreads pretty quickly. Nobody wants to spend money on some place to install expensive aftermarket parts if they heard something bad about it.
If they won't, threaten to call the BBB, or bad mouth them. Performance shops especially need to keep a good reputation, and a bad word spreads pretty quickly. Nobody wants to spend money on some place to install expensive aftermarket parts if they heard something bad about it.
