What is this noise?
2) The video taken is with the belts off. I put that in the first post.
It's either the oil pump or the camshaft. It's going back to stock to sell, so I will have an answer soon. It just sucks because if it's the cam, I can't sell it, and I don't know how to prove to the vendor that it is the cam.
Would suck, but to prove it's the cam, I will break down to the front cover, swap the oil pump/re align it properly with feeler gauges, put the cover and pulley back on and start it up with no accessories on the car. That way, I'm only pulling the balancer back off and front cover away from pulling the cam back out for another.
I found another video with an identical noise and it turned out to be the camshaft.
I am pulling it out next Saturday
My concern is not the added labor. It's what is being worn down by the camshaft to cause that noise? I'm concerned I'll be tearing everything down again even after I fix the noise to fix something else. I'm praying it's not cam bearing being prematurely worn. I can take lifters going bad, that's just a head swap. But cam bearings = motor comes out and gets torn apart.
Video I found
My car
I am pulling it out next Saturday
My concern is not the added labor. It's what is being worn down by the camshaft to cause that noise? I'm concerned I'll be tearing everything down again even after I fix the noise to fix something else
. I'm praying it's not cam bearing being prematurely worn. I can take lifters going bad, that's just a head swap. But cam bearings = motor comes out and gets torn apart.Video I found
My car
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I know! Everyone I talk to thinks I'm nuts for swapping the cam to fix this noise.
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