Help Engine Noise/tick loud after oil change
10-19-2009, 12:07 AM
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The factory calls for 5w-30 when the car and engine were new. Its far from new anymore.
Dont worry about what the manual says about oil weight. I use 20w-50 in mine and have been for the last 6 years since I bought it. It doesnt get too cold down here though.
Dont worry about what the manual says about oil weight. I use 20w-50 in mine and have been for the last 6 years since I bought it. It doesnt get too cold down here though.
10-19-2009, 07:50 PM
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Ok the noise is back. I got under the car and I can hear it well where the transmission connects to the back of the engine. I cant hear it with my ear against the oil pan. Its also fairly loud at the passenger side valve cover.
10-19-2009, 09:17 PM
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Have to agree with you on that one. In my 91 z28 I had the converter bolts loosen up and let me tell you it sounded like the rods where about to come through the block...tightened them up and the noise was gone. So I say check the converter bolts to if its an auto.
10-20-2009, 08:38 AM
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Make sure you get all of them, you have to spin the engine to find all of the bolts which isnt always that easy to do. Make sure you have plenty of light to see what your doing.
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10-02-2010, 12:12 PM
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Deff. sounds like rod knock/valvetrain noise. DON'T RUN THE ENGINE ANYMORE!! Check the oil level, if its low (or empty) you either forgot the oil, or didn't tighten down the drain plug or filter. If it's full, you may have had something caught in the filter and clogged up your oil galleys or got some of the plastic protector rap stukk in the oil pump output port. If none of these are the case, your oil is probably bad (i.e. coolant in the oil or poorly produced oil that is waaay too thin and waaay under spec which to be honest is EXTREMELY unlikely)... either that or you had some coincidental major engine failure that just happened to occur at the same time
