Possible the heads were rebuilt with new guides installed. Guides were
distorted when pressed and not adequately reamed out. Add some gasoline
and or carbon residue or the oil got washed off the valves and they are
stuck. If they stuck enough to bend the push rods, the heads need to
come off.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Jeff Ensing
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 4:01 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Why do I have four bent Intake valves?

I put a starter on my 86'   2.1  and...

I heard some strange noises spinning it over and it wont start now
sounds like no compression, and then I notice the oil puddle forming
under
it !!!
I pulled the pushrod shields and the Intake tubes are mangled  :  (
so I pulled the covers and rocker assembleys and all the intakes are
hung
open and frozen in the guides.

This is a used van I am just getting on the road so I have no engine
history
but the heads appear to have been done recently and it was running as
smooth
as you would ever see a 2.1 run.
It had the normal valve noise after first starting considering it had
been
sitting for months but it quieted down after driving it and was doing
great
untill  the bendix started sticking on the starter.
so even If I loaded it up "bumping"  the old starter and it hydro
locked
would it strip the timing gears?
Is this something any one is familiar with?
thanks in advance
jeff

86' Westy weekender