Chicks made me break my car!!
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Originally Posted by DaleMX
If you lost a rod bearing you can tell by pulling the spark plug wire for each cylinder and listen for the knock. If it goes away on a cylinder when you pull the wire then this is the cylinder where the bad bearing resides.
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Originally Posted by cowboysfan
just pull the valve covers and see it anything is bent/broken/twisted. that cheaper then trying to figure out if its the bottom end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fuerzaws6
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As per everyones advice, including yours, this will be my first course of action after my finals are done this week! So I gots me a weekend project...
The best advice I can give you is... kick yourself in the nuts.. 13k on the engine and you have to **** it up. Respect the love of your life.. And you're just gonna have to check out everything until you eventually find the culprit. Or take it to a pro..
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From: Vevay,IN
Originally Posted by markozga
As per everyones advice, including yours, this will be my first course of action after my finals are done this week! So I gots me a weekend project...
dude, make this someone else's weekend project!!
Man the same things happened to me but not the whole story!! anyways if its like a ticking noise and its on the top of the motor somewhere its the rocker arms its like an hour to two hour repair!!!!
Please don't take this the wrong way, but based on your obvious lack of mechanical knowledge you have no business going into that engine yourself. Anything you try to fix yourself to save money could (and likely will) cost you a lot of money in the future paying someone else to fix your mistakes. It's not hard for someone w/o a clue to completely destroy an engine.
Bring it to someone for the repairs.
Bring it to someone for the repairs.
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Originally Posted by FormulaFire
The best advice I can give you is... kick yourself in the nuts.. 13k on the engine and you have to **** it up. Respect the love of your life.. And you're just gonna have to check out everything until you eventually find the culprit. Or take it to a pro..
Get it into a good shop for investigation. 13000 miles, you have warrenty yet????Before I bought my car I had them fix a noise in my car; it was a spun cam bearing....But when it they fixed it, the dealership ended up leaving a bolt in the intake when they put in a new longblock..Im sure we all know what happens then....Make sure to find a good shop or someone who knows wtf they are talking about and doing. Good luck
Originally Posted by Wet 1
Please don't take this the wrong way, but based on your obvious lack of mechanical knowledge you have no business going into that engine yourself. Anything you try to fix yourself to save money could (and likely will) cost you a lot of money in the future paying someone else to fix your mistakes. It's not hard for someone w/o a clue to completely destroy an engine.
Bring it to someone for the repairs.
Bring it to someone for the repairs.
Originally Posted by GuitsBoy
In my opinion, anyone with simply the inclination to work on their car can accomplish a task as easy as checking pushrods. Thats the great thing about this site, if you come to a problem thats beyond your ability (no matter how rudimentary or advanced) theres plenty of folks to help. Simply checking the pushrods wont likely involve any tricky areas that could potentially toast his motor.
to that, but if it gets deeper than that, like I said 2 posts ago, seek perfessional help. You might be surprised as to who on LS1tech here is in your area who might be able to help. 
It's the VTEC cam. Don't you guys know Ls1 has a second cam, right where the bottoms rockers are 
Jokes aside....sorry about that....
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My bet is either bent pushrod...or bent pushrod that made your rocker arm loose hence the tapping....either way, you'd have to be a complete moron if you don't know how to swap those...it's just 2 metric sockets, a wrenche and a 22 ft-lb torque wrench....I always put a drop of lock-tide on rocker arm bolts....doesn't hurt....
www.ls1howto.com has a great step-by-step writeup with pictures....
Good Luck, and let us know.
Jokes aside....sorry about that....
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My bet is either bent pushrod...or bent pushrod that made your rocker arm loose hence the tapping....either way, you'd have to be a complete moron if you don't know how to swap those...it's just 2 metric sockets, a wrenche and a 22 ft-lb torque wrench....I always put a drop of lock-tide on rocker arm bolts....doesn't hurt....
www.ls1howto.com has a great step-by-step writeup with pictures....
Good Luck, and let us know.
Dude, look at http://ls1howto.com/index.php?article=21 and make sure this is something you want to do before you have at it.
Staging Lane
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From: LA county
dont listen to the guys saying you can't rebuild it, or diagnose it. all it takes is a few books and a few tools
first question. how much haveyou driven the car since you've had this problem? if you have a bad rod or bearing it wouldn't last more than probably 50 miles... you'll be slowly dropping oil pressure and the knocking will get worse
now, if it's not that (which it more than likely shouldn't be for a motor that new unless there's something seriously wrong with it) you could have a bad lifter, rocker arm or push rod. also, i dont know how well you've kept up on matinence, but if you dont keep up with an oil change and the oil get old it can cause the lifters to make a knocking noise.
to diagnose a bad lifter/pushrod/ or rocker arm i would suggest you adjust your valves and pinpoint the bad one. they may have just comeo ut of adjustment, or you may have a bad one. if you have a bad one you should notice the noise to come back pretty soon
good luck,
-harold
first question. how much haveyou driven the car since you've had this problem? if you have a bad rod or bearing it wouldn't last more than probably 50 miles... you'll be slowly dropping oil pressure and the knocking will get worse
now, if it's not that (which it more than likely shouldn't be for a motor that new unless there's something seriously wrong with it) you could have a bad lifter, rocker arm or push rod. also, i dont know how well you've kept up on matinence, but if you dont keep up with an oil change and the oil get old it can cause the lifters to make a knocking noise.
to diagnose a bad lifter/pushrod/ or rocker arm i would suggest you adjust your valves and pinpoint the bad one. they may have just comeo ut of adjustment, or you may have a bad one. if you have a bad one you should notice the noise to come back pretty soon
good luck,
-harold
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From: CHITOWN
OK. I know this guy, Im very good freinds with his brother. Hes mostly into bikes etc. Hes new to the car thing and is very fast to learn things and is willing to listen. His freind who knows about cars is a very old school guy thats lives buy him and helps him out with things every now on then. He a old dude that knows his cars from his time but is always trying to help, hes not a jackass or anything like that. Just new to LS1s and LT1s........
Im going to read all the posts and stop by his house when he gets back him from school and look at it with my buddy. I think I know what the problem is, should be to bad. Anys the car is bone stock and has a warrenty etc.....
So dont rag on him or talk **** etc hes willing to learn and messed up plain and simple if you dont have anything helpful to say then shut the **** up.
Im going to read all the posts and stop by his house when he gets back him from school and look at it with my buddy. I think I know what the problem is, should be to bad. Anys the car is bone stock and has a warrenty etc.....
So dont rag on him or talk **** etc hes willing to learn and messed up plain and simple if you dont have anything helpful to say then shut the **** up.