When your cams are locked with the tool and you look at the cylinder one cam lobes, they should look like this: / \ That's about what your look like.
If you didn't hear anything ticking when you turned it over, I'm sure it isn't all bent valves unless the timing was dramatically off.
One thing, being that I run a machine shop, we see a lot is customers putting heads together and not giving the lifters time to bleed down which causes the valves to stay open slightly. That'll cause you to have no compression, with that said, the time it takes to install the head going at a slow pace usually would be enough time to help them bleed down and seal the valves.
Perhaps having left it for a few hours, the valves might have sealed now. If it still isn't sealing (assuming it was lifters originally), then those valves might be the culprit now. |