#108177, "Poll question: Engine knock - see video, vote how much my life sucks" Mar-23-08 03:55 PM by ez
This is a 95RS I bought to restore. The original engine had rod knock, so replaced the engine.
I bought the *new* engine from someone in the forces, he told me the engine was okay and that it had a rebuilt head. This is the 3rd or 4th time I've started the engine, finally took her our for a drive around the block. Lucky me, there is a knock that comes on about 1500RPM and I can hear to like 4000RPM, and then it either disappears or I can't here it over the exhaust. It's loud. Here's the video:
The first time I started the engine, there was a throw-out-bearing kind of knock sound (it only made the noise at idle, when the clutch pedal was pressed the noise went away.) This noise sounds very different. So, tell me straight up - does this sound like rod knock?
I was ready to sell the car. Now I may have to waste several more weekends
#108178, "RE: Engine knock - see video, vote how much my life sucks" In response to Reply # 0 Mar-23-08 04:46 PM by KnightHawk434th
Sorry to say, but that sounds much like a rod knock. Lifter tick isn't that loud, and I'm not so sure a TOB would produce that loud of a knock. Good luck! If you want to get rid of it, I might take it . I need a good project car.
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#108180, "RE: Engine knock - see video, vote how much my life sucks" In response to Reply # 0
Any chance you can get a better quality video. I work on these ALL the time and it doesn't sound like a rod knock to me-rod knock is a much deeper sound. It sounds to me like your 4 18mm bolts holding your clutch assembly to the flex plate are loose. Remove the dust shield and check those bolts. If they are loose, pull each one out at a time and put thread lock on them, and tighten them in. Good luck
#108182, "RE: Engine knock - see video, vote how much my life sucks" In response to Reply # 3 Mar-24-08 05:27 AM by ez
Originally posted by GringoEJS Any chance you can get a better quality video. I work on these ALL the time and it doesn't sound like a rod knock to me-rod knock is a much deeper sound. It sounds to me like your 4 18mm bolts holding your clutch assembly to the flex plate are loose. Remove the dust shield and check those bolts. If they are loose, pull each one out at a time and put thread lock on them, and tighten them in. Good luck
Thanks for your input. Something in the back of my mind was telling me that it was possibly those 4 bolts, but the thing is I used blue loctite on those bolts and torqued them down (I think I used chilton's to find the torque specs... or maybe these were the bolts that there were no published specs on - I can't remember.)
So rod knock is lower in frequency? What's also kind of strange (and maybe goes against this being rod knock) is that the sounds seems to go away at somewhere around 4000-5000 rpm. I would think you'd hear rod knock all the way to redline and it would get louder and louder. Also, I don't here it at idle. It's only there when I hit the gas.
I can't do another video right now b/c the car is at my parents house. It's hard to capture a good representative sound on a video camera.
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#108184, "RE: Engine knock - see video, vote how much my life sucks" In response to Reply # 5
Sounds like rod knock. Go after it with a mechanic's stethoscope, see if you can better isolate where the noise is coming from.
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#108187, "RE: Engine knock - see video, vote how much my life sucks" In response to Reply # 7
Originally posted by ez I don't have a mechanic's stethoscope, but I do have a regular stethoscope. *ez wonders if it will work*
Sure! Might be a little loud, though.
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