Dicipleofthelie said:
today while driving home from work i began to very loud rattle.........when i got into my garage i pulled the plugs and did a compression check.....
1:60
2:30
3:120
4:115
i have no doubt that the engine is toast.....i am done with this car....onto anouther
Timig belt slip? The engine will run but with very loud rattles and stuff if the timing belt jumps 2-3 tooths... it will work but VERY bad...
How can an engine quit like that, since you've mentioned that you did an engine swap? Overheated, lost oil pressure? Engine will die either from sliped, broken timing belt, long lasting hard detionation or pinging, loss of oil (or driving always with oil BELOW low mark), driving with insufficient coolant...
Did you have loud pinging or something like that for some time? It can mess up the piston and valves... If the engine is working normally (not overstressed - if you drive every day all the time on red line, but I think you didn't), with correct oil levels (regardless if its using oil or not), with correct coolant levels, without pinging, with changed timing belt, normal spark plugs and solid fuel it cannot brake like that! I know a guy whos engine guzzled a quart of oil every 200 miles, but it didn't brake - he simply did regular maintenace and checked oil levels every day. He had low compression (but not very bad), still engine worked normaly and it didn't broke!!