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Old May 4, 2007 | 08:05 PM
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i dont know whats wrong with my 89mustang lx, it just started making this rattling sound, i dunno if it has to do with the huge oil leak i have, and it stumbles on the acceleration

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Old May 4, 2007 | 08:29 PM
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Do a compression test, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say your engine is about ready to take a ****[:'(]
Old May 4, 2007 | 08:34 PM
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How many miles are on it?
Old May 5, 2007 | 07:33 PM
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66000miles



its messed up, something cracked in and around the pistons, thats what someone told me....cuz of the oil leak.
dam
now im going to have to put in a 5.0 engine
Old May 5, 2007 | 07:39 PM
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Your rings are gone?
Old May 10, 2007 | 05:48 PM
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i just got done putting in a new oil sending unit, it turns out that was were the oil was leaking, as for the clattering sound, i think that was just the engine runing on low oil. cuz now the sound is gone, im hopine nothing else goes wrong, but it runs fine now
Old May 10, 2007 | 07:22 PM
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Sounds like you dont know much about cars, nor the person who told you about the car.

Rattling sound could be about 45 different things on the car, from lose bolts, to interior panels, to heat shields, to detonation, to falling apart. Oil leak could be related or un-related.
Old May 10, 2007 | 07:45 PM
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Sounds like you dont know much about cars, nor the person who told you about the car.

Rattling sound could be about 45 different things on the car, from lose bolts, to interior panels, to heat shields, to detonation, to falling apart. Oil leak could be related or un-related.
agreed my car used to rattle
Old May 10, 2007 | 07:55 PM
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Sounds like you dont know much about cars, nor the person who told you about the car.

Rattling sound could be about 45 different things on the car, from lose bolts, to interior panels, to heat shields, to detonation, to falling apart. Oil leak could be related or un-related.
Dont forget the exhaust rattle we get sometimes[:@]
Old May 11, 2007 | 01:26 AM
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ORIGINAL: speedjunkie92

ORIGINAL: TBird232ci

Sounds like you dont know much about cars, nor the person who told you about the car.

Rattling sound could be about 45 different things on the car, from lose bolts, to interior panels, to heat shields, to detonation, to falling apart. Oil leak could be related or un-related.
agreed my car used to rattle
Same, it was a bad lifter for me[:@]



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