What am I missing here? I've always heard if you break a timing belt on an interference engine and in some rare cases even an interference engine, the values are bent, period. However, that is guesswork right now until I actually do the test. I have a compression tester and I'm going to test the cylinders, but if the belt slipped I'm thinking a zero reading may be because things are out of alignment for the compression stroke to work. In the video he did it and it started and ran fine! He said he has had great success by putting a new timing belt on and then firing up the engine. Then I watched a video by Eric the Car guy What to do when your timing belt breaks where he had a Honda (which has an interference engine) with a broken timing belt. I also assume that the belt has slipped and that is why it won't start. I got it towed home anyway, pulled the timing belt cover and there wasn't any broken belt, but when I did the same visual test looking through the oil filler cap, nothing in the engine moved when I tried to start it either, which I assume is due to no compression from bent values, but I'm not sure. Moreover, I've read that 70% of the cars on the road have interference engines, so this is something I want to make sure I understand. Since it's an interference engine and it had high miles, they said to scrap the car. Nothing moved inside on the engine, so they assumed it was a broken timing belt. They pulled off the oil filler cap and looked in while someone cranked the engine. I pulled off the road and then had it towed to a local mechanic. While I was driving it all of sudden the engine just died. I have a 2003 Mitsubishi Galant 2.4L SOHC engine with 251k miles on it.
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