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Re: Knocking sound at idle

To: "Eric Frisbee" <efrisbee@charter.net>
Subject: Re: Knocking sound at idle
From: Bill Schairer <wschaibe@ucsd.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:38:23 -0800
Have you tried seeing if the crank pulley is tight.  i had a lot of 
trouble with this.

Bill
70 1600

On Feb 2, 2004, at 7:49 AM, Eric Frisbee wrote:

> Thanks for the replies so far!   I should clarify a bit though.       
> The
> best way I can described the sound is "tock".   It almost sounds like
> something hitting either the aluminum valve cover or timing cover very
> lightly.   This noise goes away if you rev the engine up or after the 
> car
> warms up.    Not to worry, I've already stopped driving the car.    I 
> do
> have a spare 3 main engine that will be going into the car while I 
> figure
> out what is wrong with this engine.   It's good to have too many cars!!
>
> Thanks for all responses!!
>
> Eric






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