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I have a 2001 honda civic ex..It has 75k miles

Here in Ny we got a big snow storm and i park my car at my job,was away working for a few days..

I went to start my car and i could barely heard anything..I popped my hood and found out that the entire engine was packed with snow. I pushed it in the shop and hooked a space heater up and let it all defrost..

The starter spins and all the belts but no compression, sounds like an electric car lol..I'm guessing it has to be the timing belt but was wondering if maybe the tensioner got stuck or something?. Do you think i could have bent a valve on a half dead battery trying to start it? I wasn't going 50 miles per hour, just tried to crank it over quick. This is just a freak of an accident that happened, i never heard of this happening before

Any advice would be appreciated..I don't mind doing the timing belt, just hope the valves weren't bent Thanks

 
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Any suggestions? This is my daily driver car and i just cant see the timing belt snapping due to this Thankss

 
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First, whats with two different usernames??

Second... Its unclear what really happened... do you have pictures of the engine bay before thawing it and do you have video of the startup??

 
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Sorry, i thought i was a member of this forum before and signed back up(since forgot user name didn't work)

No, i didn't take pictures..Starter spins but it wont turn over(has never since this problem)..I remember in the summer i added some water to my coolant.. Maybe the water pump froze or the fuel lines? Alternator belt turns..

I rarely drive this car, because it sits at the shop and we are always out of state in company vehicles

Thanks for your time!

 
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Its not unusual for belts to be completely knocked off if you attempt to start a car after the engine bay has been packed by heavy snow. If the belt wasn't knocked off when you go it to the shop, then my suspicion would be that slipped and put your timing off. Timing off, potentially bent valves.

 
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I'm going to say it didn't slip, because wouldn't there be some type of compression?

 
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You could completely lose compression if the valves were bent badly enough, I'm fairly confident this is the issue, because its a common problem in areas with routine heavy blowing snow.

 
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What I can see happening is the water pump being frozen in place and the crank spinning the timing belt around it chewing up all the grooves out of the timing belt as you attempt to crank it. I've actually seen it happen on an old sunbird where the coolant was all frozen. So if you tried to crank it for a few minutes youve caused enough damage to the belt for it not to function any more.

 
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Would the Cam sensor make it not turn over?

 
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No.
But a bad cam sensor will not let the engine start.

Is the CEL on?

 
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Yes, but I doubt thats the problem, because a snow storm couldn't foul the cam position censor.

Do you have any more information you can give us?

 
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By frozen do you mean the coolant was frozen? Or do you mean there was snow in the engine bay?

 
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there was snow in the engine bay.. Ive been on the road and getting back now.. Im going to take the timing cover off and make sure its on and the points line up..Hoping its someone besides that thoooo

 
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I took the timing cover off..Belt is fine, Just no compression.. It did make a "puut putt" sound at first, but nothing.. What now? Thanks

 
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Did you check the timing?

 
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Nope..Just towed it out the shop and going to have my a shop look at it..Damn snow caused to many problems!