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[RgrBarney]

Just a quick hello from a new member. I like the forum and the information I've found so far.

I have a 92 1.0L with 152,000+ miles on it. It's been a great car up to now with only normal maintenance kinds of issues. I did a tune up a couple of months ago. I also replaced the fuel pump within the last three months.

My timing belt broke the other day on the way home from work and I've been having nothing but problems ever since. Replaced the belt and got the timing adjusted correctly. The very next day my alternator went out on the way to work. I limped it in to work with no lights or auxillaries on and replaced the alternator in the parking lot the next evening. No problems for a day or so, then I noticed a kind of surge when I was driving to work. Only did it when I had the A/C on. I had a bad feeling about the timing belt, so I opened it back up and discovered the tensioner was not put on correctly. I had assumed the mechanic that did the belt last time put it on correctly. Oops! So I fix that but now I have absolutely no power on the bottom end. I check everything with the timing again, and find nothing wrong. I have to advance my timing several degrees to get the car to run right now. I put a new fuel filter in it yesterday and replaced a short section of fuel hose coming off the filter due to some cracks. I thought surely that was the problem, the hose maybe sucking in air or something like that. Nope, still no power from a dead stop. I think the next thing I will do is try to replace all the vacuum hoses and see what that does.

I did do a compression test and it's low, but not completely gone. The number one cylinder was about 110 psi with no oil. The other two were right at 155 psi with no oil. I have a bad feeling the rings are going, but I'm not sure if it's worth it to replace them. If it's valves, then that might not be quite so bad.

Any thoughts on all of this would be appreciated.

Thanks for the great forum!