LS1 Engine knock? Lifters? Rod?
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LS1 Engine knock? Lifters? Rod?
LS1 newbie here!
My 2001 Corvette with 53,000 Miles has developed a knocking and unsure what im hearing. Starts great but after a minute or 2 of idling the knocking becomes more noticable as the car warms up, Oil pressure reads good as 30-32PSI at 700 Idle and 40-46psi driving at 1500-2000. I did an oil change and noticed some sparkles in the plastic oil catch pan, but when i cut open the filter it looked super clean, i drained a bit of oil couple days after the oil change and noticed smaller ammount of sparkles yet still there. Im sending in a sample to blackStone Oil but would still like to see if anyone can help! No check engine lights are on and when i took off the valve covers there was no sign of any sparkles or damage to my understanding. Videos and pictures will attached! The noise is very noticable when coming down in rpms and is very loud around 1000-1500 RPMS or idle.
My 2001 Corvette with 53,000 Miles has developed a knocking and unsure what im hearing. Starts great but after a minute or 2 of idling the knocking becomes more noticable as the car warms up, Oil pressure reads good as 30-32PSI at 700 Idle and 40-46psi driving at 1500-2000. I did an oil change and noticed some sparkles in the plastic oil catch pan, but when i cut open the filter it looked super clean, i drained a bit of oil couple days after the oil change and noticed smaller ammount of sparkles yet still there. Im sending in a sample to blackStone Oil but would still like to see if anyone can help! No check engine lights are on and when i took off the valve covers there was no sign of any sparkles or damage to my understanding. Videos and pictures will attached! The noise is very noticable when coming down in rpms and is very loud around 1000-1500 RPMS or idle.
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GavinR (03-03-2024)
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I agree with the above post, definitely doesn't sound like a rod. Like stated above pull the valve covers and and check rockers if that's not it then keep coming until you find the problem. If it weren't that then I'd check the valve springs, I had a valve spring making a similar noise. The guy I bought the heads from used the wrong retainer clips and a few of my inner springs were broken and causing the noise. I couldn't see it from common eye but when I sent the heads to a machine shop they found the issue and I went ahead and put ls7 lifters in it while I had it apart and all is good now.
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GavinR (03-03-2024)
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I agree with the above post, definitely doesn't sound like a rod. Like stated above pull the valve covers and and check rockers if that's not it then keep coming until you find the problem. If it weren't that then I'd check the valve springs, I had a valve spring making a similar noise. The guy I bought the heads from used the wrong retainer clips and a few of my inner springs were broken and causing the noise. I couldn't see it from common eye but when I sent the heads to a machine shop they found the issue and I went ahead and put ls7 lifters in it while I had it apart and all is good now.
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Funny you say that, I had a valve spring break at idle in my Formula and it did sound a lot like that, but there's no way mine would have even driven - the valve was being held up by the flat wound damper. I'm just glad it happened at idle or I'd have been buying an engine. That's why I hesitated to say a broken valve spring, because of the single beehives LS1s have stock. If one breaks, it's likely to drop a valve. Definitely possible, however.
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Tommy42088 (02-27-2024)
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Lifter, rocker or spring. You can tell by the speed of the tick that it’s in the valvetrain. Valvetrain turns half as fast as the rotating assembly….