Sorry to hear that. If you want me to come get the car and haul it off? I will. I am telling you it is those damn valve covers. It's a sign from the gods.
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For what it's worth, a friend of mine had a 'tick' in his 11 Mustang that sounded like an exhaust leak. He drove it for 35k miles before it started actually knocking. He looked back and it was reported in Coyote world that many people drove it with a tick assuming it was something minor and it turned out the rod bearing was on the way out for a lot of miles.
It's apples to oranges, and a Coyote isn't a SBC, but if you think it's bottom end pulling the pan in the car isn't that much work.
It's frustrating but solving this problem will take 0.5-1% of the total time you have invested in the car so it's just an annoying speed bump to overcome.
It's apples to oranges, and a Coyote isn't a SBC, but if you think it's bottom end pulling the pan in the car isn't that much work.
It's frustrating but solving this problem will take 0.5-1% of the total time you have invested in the car so it's just an annoying speed bump to overcome.
Soooo.... Should I haul down the spare 4.8 and book a week for an LS swap?
I know its disheartening now Donovan, but you'll figure it out. You've been through other big challenges with the car, and sorted them out. I have no doubt you'll beat this one.
Up here that engine can identify as anything it wants to. Right now it's identifying as a Ford.
Also:
(Just F'ing with you, D.)
Been there too. It isn't the arm on the fuel pump making that noise? It seems odd that after the tear down the noise changes to another. It would make me think of the parts that were removed and put back. It sucks no matter the cause.
You have the right idea. Give it a little to settle in your head and then pull it and tear it down. After building patch panels and repairing the rust that was present, an engine pull is child's play.
Good luck D.
Hutch
You have the right idea. Give it a little to settle in your head and then pull it and tear it down. After building patch panels and repairing the rust that was present, an engine pull is child's play.
Good luck D.
Hutch
You know Donovan, I had an idea...
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Y’know, sometimes it pays to be a stubborn as hell pit bull.
I started troubleshooting a bit more tonight after considering a few new possibilities, starting with the dipstick tube and dipstick. They both were removed to install the headers, so I thought they could possibly be hitting the crankshaft counterweights, making a sound. We tried to reinstall it in the exact same place it came out of, but anything’s possible right?
Well, after manipulating it and starting the car again, that wasn’t it.
I was just about to throw my hands up in frustration for the 137th time, when on a whim I decided to slide under the car one more time to see if this new noise was louder underneath. With the car running, I put my hand on the bottom of the oil pan, i could feel it, but it was faint. Then put my hand on the underside of the plastic inspection cover, and hey! We might be on to something here.
Yanked that plastic POS outta there, started and warmed up the car again, and BAM! No more new noise!
Turns out that the converter bolts or something else was hitting the inspection cover making a deep knocking sound.
You can see the witness marks in the plastic if you look close, and it seems to have been the worst right adjacent to the starter, between the starter and crankshaft:
This is such good news and I’m so relieved, you guys have no idea! I had nightmare visions of dollar signs flying out the window, and months of downtime. SO glad that isn’t the case anymore.
So to recap this whole ridiculous misadventure, the initial strange noise went away after we tore down and reassembled the front of the engine, only to be replaced by this second worse sound, which was the converter bolts hitting the stupid inspection cover.
Sorry guys, the LS swaps are out, no Bentley V12 swaps either (as cool as that might’ve been). (And MotorheadMike, ego check is done now too).
😏
I started troubleshooting a bit more tonight after considering a few new possibilities, starting with the dipstick tube and dipstick. They both were removed to install the headers, so I thought they could possibly be hitting the crankshaft counterweights, making a sound. We tried to reinstall it in the exact same place it came out of, but anything’s possible right?
Well, after manipulating it and starting the car again, that wasn’t it.
I was just about to throw my hands up in frustration for the 137th time, when on a whim I decided to slide under the car one more time to see if this new noise was louder underneath. With the car running, I put my hand on the bottom of the oil pan, i could feel it, but it was faint. Then put my hand on the underside of the plastic inspection cover, and hey! We might be on to something here.
Yanked that plastic POS outta there, started and warmed up the car again, and BAM! No more new noise!
Turns out that the converter bolts or something else was hitting the inspection cover making a deep knocking sound.
You can see the witness marks in the plastic if you look close, and it seems to have been the worst right adjacent to the starter, between the starter and crankshaft:
This is such good news and I’m so relieved, you guys have no idea! I had nightmare visions of dollar signs flying out the window, and months of downtime. SO glad that isn’t the case anymore.
So to recap this whole ridiculous misadventure, the initial strange noise went away after we tore down and reassembled the front of the engine, only to be replaced by this second worse sound, which was the converter bolts hitting the stupid inspection cover.
Sorry guys, the LS swaps are out, no Bentley V12 swaps either (as cool as that might’ve been). (And MotorheadMike, ego check is done now too).
😏
So it sounds like, if you just would have sent that thing on a suicide burnout mission, it would have self clearanced and STFU. Glad to hear you're out of the woods, now go rip on it for us!
The ultimate self healing burnout would have been way more satisfying Im sure haha! Glad you finally found the source.
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