squeeking/chirping from underside of engine
11-08-2005, 08:09 AM
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squeeking/chirping from underside of engine I've noticed that when my car gets warmed up there is a high-pitched chirping/squeeking/whirring sound and after popping the hood i've determined it's coming from the underside of the engine and doesn't sound like belts. It's been 50°-70° weather lately with some humidity, last night it rained. I have a 2000 ws.6, any :help: would be appreciated.
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11-08-2005, 09:37 AM
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A couple of years ago my 5.3l truck engine developed a similar sounding chirp/squeak noise. I traced it down to a hydraulic lifter gone bad. It took out the cam too. I ended up replacing the engine with a 6.0l. 
You might try first looking under the valve covers to see if it's a rocker arm going bad. If the noise is deeper in the engine, then the heads will probably have to come off to get to the lifters.
I hope it's not as bad as what I just mentioned, but I thought I'd share my experience.
Good luck,
Richard
You might try first looking under the valve covers to see if it's a rocker arm going bad. If the noise is deeper in the engine, then the heads will probably have to come off to get to the lifters.
I hope it's not as bad as what I just mentioned, but I thought I'd share my experience.
Good luck,
Richard
11-10-2005, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by dipherentdesign
I've noticed that when my car gets warmed up there is a high-pitched chirping/squeeking/whirring sound and after popping the hood i've determined it's coming from the underside of the engine and doesn't sound like belts. It's been 50°-70° weather lately with some humidity, last night it rained. I have a 2000 ws.6, any :help: would be appreciated.
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Check the belt tensioner and idler pully, my tensioner was going bad. It had rust coming out of the bearing race. The tensioner see's a lot of water due to it's location.
11-10-2005, 03:26 PM
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I had really annoying chirping/squeaking from the motor. I was positive it was belts or a tensioner. Searched for a long time before I found it.... ended up being my A/C compressor going bad.
11-10-2005, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Samba242
I had really annoying chirping/squeaking from the motor. I was positive it was belts or a tensioner. Searched for a long time before I found it.... ended up being my A/C compressor going bad.
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11-14-2005, 08:44 AM
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thanks all. I remember when my heads leaked and it made that crazy chirping sound-scared the **** out of me to hear damn-near the same thing, just wasn't as intese so i knew it had to be something else. So i found out it is the 2 lowest pully's bearings are going bad...they look easy to replace-think a non gear head could do it? anybody have part numbers?
