Rottluver

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I don't put a lot of miles on my car but the other day when I started it I heard this faint rattling noise........over the course of the next 36 hours it has grown to a full blown ugly sound, similar to a pebble rattling around in an empty coffee can or what it might sound like if my heat shields were rattling against something.......but since I don't have those on there anymore, I know it isn't that.

I can barely hear the sound when I pop the hood and try to listen but it does get very loud when I walk around the car and get to about the middle of the car, driver's side back to the left rear wheel well.......someone suggested that my cat went bad. Any other suggestions or agreements with that one?

Also the sound does NOT change or get better or worse with a change in RPM, I usually hear it most upon initial start-up and at idle at a stop light or as I am just taking off in 1st gear, etc. I can faintly hear it while I am driving (most of the time) but it seems to be at it's worst when I start up the car.

TIA.

WAHUSKER

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Muffler Bearings?


Sounds like a cat to me. If it was piston slap (or other engine problems) you'd hear it more when you opened the hood. If it was the exh hitting, you hear it worse when you let the clutch out

Rottluver

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Do I need to refill the fluid in my blinkers as well?

Someone suggested it might be a loose tq arm or something but the noise isn't like something is loose, just more like a tinny, rattling sound.

TwoFast4Lv

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Yeah deffinately the Muffler bearings man

From what you are saying it sounds like a cat. You have stock exhaust? If so I have a cat

Rottluver

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Custom true duals. Need to get them re-worked anyway since they scrape a LOT & hang WAYYYY too low. Just didn't wanna spend the $$ right now.

But thanks just the same.

Ackattack1

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yeah, if they're scrapping, that may have been the cause.

Poik

The fix for the problem is a trusty crow bar and about 15 minutes

Racehead

With the car turned off take a rubber mallet and bang on the cat. That'll tell you much

Rottluver

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There is one particular driveway entrance that I have been using for a nearby store since I moved to my new house that scrapes the crap outta them........maybe that helped accelerate their downfall?
If you saw my exhaust I don't think that would be your response.
DAMN!! Good idea, why didn't I think of that, I luv to bang with hammers and stuff.

Seriously, thanks, I will put her up on the ramps tomorrow and see........it was weird, when I went to the gym today......no noise at startup and almost no rattles at all the entire trip.......coming home was a whole other story though...

Poik

Yeah 15 minutes* (after you get them off the car)

Rottluver

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15 minutes after they are off the car, they will be rat bait.

GEARHED

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Crap. That means I get them?

Rottluver

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Wait, why? You got rats?