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Re: piston slap or big-end knock???

To: H4aardvrk@aol.com
Subject: Re: piston slap or big-end knock???
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 06:36:11 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 H4aardvrk@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/27/99 4:49:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu writes:
> 
> << Sounds like rod bearings to me.    If you pull the pan the bearings are
>  fairly easy to replace. If the bearings are going you want to replace them
>  before the crank gets scored
>   ...Art
>   >>
> Art,
>      I think rod berings rattle like a train at idle..they sometimes quiet a 
> bit under load.
> yours, H4(Howard)
> 
        When rod bearings start to go you hear them under load, they sound
like the car is pinging. At idle you can't hear anything wrong.
rt...


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