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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kvoriley" data-source="post: 1364856" data-attributes="member: 19363">97 Cobra180,xxx milesI have had the car for a couple months now, was going to put a complete ford timing chain kit in it once I parked it for the winter.  Well as always, things never go as planned.  I am going to do some more diagnosing this evening, but it seems that one, or both of my timing chain tensioners have went out.It ran fine, I parked it and it sat overnight outside in colder weather. Went to start it this morning and it puttered for a second and died. Now when I turn it over it seems like it has intermittent compression. I am thinking timing chain tensioners.My question is do I most likely have a bent valve considering these are interference?  Or should I be okay with installing a new timing chain kit?  The engine does have high mileage but it ran great, and did not burn or leak any oil. So it would be worth it to me to fix the problem as long as I don't have a bent valve for something</blockquote>