Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
03-13-2007, 04:14 PM
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RE: Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
Find an old valve cover and cut the top off it so you can see what's going on inside. Run the car and make sure your getting oil up on the rockers. Have you been into the engine at all?
03-13-2007, 04:41 PM
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RE: Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
Why dont you take a screw driver and start listening to diffrent spots untill you can find it? Narrow it down by putting your screw driver on something and then putting your ear on it andyou can hear whats goin on in that spot. Great way to find bad injectors, worn valve trian parts, bad bearings on the accessorys...all kinds of stuff.
03-13-2007, 09:07 PM
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RE: Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
if a lifter is stuck a rocker arm should be sloppy when the cam lobe is down...... so try to find slop in rocker arms, turn the motor over a little bit, check again for sloppy rockers, etc etc until you've turned it over two complete turns. do it on each head to be sure..... if everything is tight i cant see it being a stuck lifter.
*edit* to eliminate the alt and ps pump just take off the belt and start 'er on up.
*edit* to eliminate the alt and ps pump just take off the belt and start 'er on up.
03-14-2007, 03:33 AM
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RE: Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
Hey guys,
Thanks for all the help.
It had never occured to me that it could havebeen the power steering pump... the bulk of the noise wasbeing generated right in that region. I checked the fluid, and it was low. Added some, and the noise persisted. So I decided to jump the belt
beat ya to it earlier in the afternoon.
The sound was gone.
So it's definitely a major relief to find out I have a pump going out, rather than a crying motor.
So thanks again guys...
Thanks for all the help.
Are you sure it is in the valvetrain? It could be a bearing in the power steering pump or alt or tensioner?
*edit* to eliminate the alt and ps pump just take off the belt and start 'er on up.
The sound was gone.
So it's definitely a major relief to find out I have a pump going out, rather than a crying motor.
So thanks again guys...
03-15-2007, 12:07 AM
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RE: Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
Your fluid being low, depending on if it was super low or not is probably why your pump failed. Just in case it was super low so you dont let it happen it again.
03-15-2007, 02:45 PM
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RE: Engine Pros: this doesn't sound right... video
I had the same problem with my smog pump...don't you love it when you immediately assume catastrophe and it is something small? Definite relief...but what a waste of Time and Stress!?!?!?
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