Finally got her running.......PINGING!
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Finally got her running.......PINGING!
I finally got my engine back together this past week. I had removed the intake manifold to paint it, and I put a rebuilt water pump on, set the timing and everything. There is now a rhythmic pinging coming from the front of the engine. I don't think it's the fan, I've checked it's clearance about 4 times now, but it sounds like a fan blade tapping metal. There are 3 pings that reapeat themselves, PING..........PING ping............ It dosen't sound like it's coming from inside the engine but I may be wrong. I'm about to go cut up a hose and listen through it to try to pinpoint it. Does anybody have any insight into what this noise may be?
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Well, I cut a piece of hose and as I held it up to my ear and begin to probe around for the source of the sound, it quits. I keep searching for a bit and as I finally give up and take the hose away form my ear, PING.....PING!. But it stopped pinging right after that and hasn't done it since. I now think it may have been the pully hitting the pump. Now that I think about it, I did re-tension my alternator belt at some point today. Maybe it was able to pull the pully off center just a hair. Thanks for your replies.
