FOUND IT!!!!!
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M.A.D. Motorsports
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Indiana
FOUND IT!!!!!
Well a couple months of go I was playing with a kid from school and spanked him...The last pull away I just cruised up to 120mph and sat there for a min and slowed back down to the speed limit. A couple of minutes later I started hearing a loud/fast tapping sound. I thought I lost a lifter or something in the valve train let loose. Eased it home for the next 30 miles and started checking it out. My brother and I pulled the valve covers and looked around, checked the plugs, and swapped the 1.7 RR's for stock ones and put it back together....Noise was still there....so I parked the car.
I then started it up for another kid at school so he could hear why I wasn't driving the car anymore......tap tap tap tap tap tap....nothing....it got quiet and had a slight miss to it....ok...then it drove fine. My brother drove it to work a couple days with no issue....oook....
Well my brother needed a radiator so I gave him mine to use since I was gonna pull the engine anyway. I pulled it yesterday and got it on the stand and apart today....and found what it was......uploading the video of the sound now....
I then started it up for another kid at school so he could hear why I wasn't driving the car anymore......tap tap tap tap tap tap....nothing....it got quiet and had a slight miss to it....ok...then it drove fine. My brother drove it to work a couple days with no issue....oook....
Well my brother needed a radiator so I gave him mine to use since I was gonna pull the engine anyway. I pulled it yesterday and got it on the stand and apart today....and found what it was......uploading the video of the sound now....
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M.A.D. Motorsports
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 8,014
From: Indiana
Yup...Sh*t happens....wish I would have noticed the screw missing when I first pulled it apart and swapped the rockers out.... Then I would have known what it was and then had to play the guessing game of what cylinder....
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,525
From: The mitten
Wow man whos tb? I've seen carb screws fall in. That's really **** luck on that one
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M.A.D. Motorsports
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 8,014
From: Indiana
That is an explorer 65mm... Its the fact that the shaft broke...not that the screw came out...at least as far as I can tell...Guess I stomped too hard on the gas one too man times! lol
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M.A.D. Motorsports
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 8,014
From: Indiana
Thanks! After I seen the marks in the piston I had a good idea on what it was...That is the only screw in the intake system that it could have gotten sucked in without the filter being off.
