Quote Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit View Post
a broken keyway would have killed the compression once it was far enough out of time to bend the valves.
Don't want to hijack the thread, but I'm not understanding this. I have no experience with something like this actually happening, but would expect the engine to just start misfiring badly and quickly shut down because of it. Why would the valves get bent if it was just the balancer not in sync, but everything with the timing belt was still ok, maintaining proper valve/piston movement? What am I not understanding about this?