can you guys tell me what it sounds like when you have spun a rod bearing, or they're worn?
My car started makin some pretty obnoxious clicking noises that a buddy of mine diagnosed as rod bearings...I bought the bearings - pan gasket and oil so that we could do the job.
when we drained the pan a whopping 1 quart of oil came out...(the dipstick was reading full...I checked 3 times that week) So that was the obvious cause of this noise. We ran the oil through a paint filter and saw no metal shavings.
Our first guess was at that point to just fill it w/ the 5 quarts of oil that I got...maybe it was starved thus causing the noise. That didn't help
we spent the following 7 hours attempting to manuever the engine/tranny/oil pan to get access to the rod bearings....YEAH that didn't happen.
so I have been driving for about 2 weeks w/ no increase in the noise (in fact sometimes it lessens)
and it's most prevalent at about 2-3k rpm.
I guess I'm just looking for some opinions here on what to do...somewhat cost effectively
the noise is like a chattering that you hear primarily around 2-3k rpms w/ and w/out clutch engaged. You can sometimes hear it at idle. I can feel it lightly in the accelerator pedal. It's the clearest right before a shift when I let off the gas if I'm shifting around 2k rpm.
My car started makin some pretty obnoxious clicking noises that a buddy of mine diagnosed as rod bearings...I bought the bearings - pan gasket and oil so that we could do the job.
when we drained the pan a whopping 1 quart of oil came out...(the dipstick was reading full...I checked 3 times that week) So that was the obvious cause of this noise. We ran the oil through a paint filter and saw no metal shavings.
Our first guess was at that point to just fill it w/ the 5 quarts of oil that I got...maybe it was starved thus causing the noise. That didn't help
we spent the following 7 hours attempting to manuever the engine/tranny/oil pan to get access to the rod bearings....YEAH that didn't happen.
so I have been driving for about 2 weeks w/ no increase in the noise (in fact sometimes it lessens)
and it's most prevalent at about 2-3k rpm.
I guess I'm just looking for some opinions here on what to do...somewhat cost effectively
the noise is like a chattering that you hear primarily around 2-3k rpms w/ and w/out clutch engaged. You can sometimes hear it at idle. I can feel it lightly in the accelerator pedal. It's the clearest right before a shift when I let off the gas if I'm shifting around 2k rpm.