fabled death rattle..

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:44 pm

i have a suspicion i may just have spun a bearing..... gave it a bit of stick bit of a crunch and puff of smoke now a nice grinding sound coming from the block... think i may have run out of patience with the car to pull it down to pieces and rebuild if it turns out to be necessary...

http://youtu.be/-GZrGimKAxU

video kind of illustrates the noise..

Post by **TOONGA** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:03 pm

hard to tell from the video but it didn't sound like a bottom end knock, more like a failed harmonic balancer or the timing belt tensioner.

TOONGA

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:47 pm

had another look of her a little more properly today, definate "grinding" coming from around the front crank shaft pulley rather then a knock maybe even more central to the block, which makes me a little suspicious but i'll swap out the harmonic balancer first to check that, luckily i'm on uni holiday with lots of time to play around with it.. long term plan is abit of a build so if harmonic balancer isn't the cause, the engine build may start early...

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:10 pm

I too am thinking front end noise and not bottom end knock. I could come over and check for you?

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:24 pm

pulled the timing belt covers off and it looks like the water pump has packed it in

subybrumby · Post by **subybrumby** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:49 pm

G'day Paul..Don't suppose you want to come over to Qld and look at some wiring ..I'll shout you a beer. lol.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:39 pm

woody.t wrote:pulled the timing belt covers off and it looks like the water pump has packed it in

Great. Something not too expensive, just make sure you buy the turbo one and not the one to match your VIN.

subybrumby wrote:G'day Paul..Don't suppose you want to come over to Qld and look at some wiring ..I'll shout you a beer. lol.

How could I refuse such a good offer, although I'm not a beer drinker

taza · Post by **taza** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:38 pm

RSR 555 wrote:Great. Something not too expensive, just make sure you buy the turbo one and not the one to match your VIN.

haha oh that would be bad but funny at the same time..

How could I refuse such a good offer, although I'm not a beer drinker

I'll shout you a carton of CC's

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:41 pm

taza wrote:I'll shout you a carton of CC's

An offer way too hard to refuse

Post by **Alex** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:46 am

It's probably worth doing the timing belt etc while you're there. I'd hazard a guess the last time it was changed was when I first did it when I converted my wagon?

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woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:17 pm

yeh i have a new gearbox here so i think i might just pull the engine out aswell as the rocker covers are leaking abit and i may aswell do timing belts, did you replace the tensioner i may aswell change that aswell if not

Post by **Alex** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:22 pm

cant remember but id say i would have done the tensioner too.

alex

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:03 pm

Have a look once it's out. If not leaking or feels soft, then reuse.