OK Guys, need some serious help!!
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Before you pull the pan or the heads or anything else, get a boroscope, that may not be the correct spelling, and look inside the cylinders. Its like those things plumbers use to check inside your pipes. You can stick it into the spark plug holes and see if anything is in there.
Now that you have oil to the rockers, I think we can rule that out as the problem. I'd lean towards the something fell in the engine theory at this point. If you can see it with the boroscope you might get real lucky and be able to fish it out witout a major teardown.
Paul
Now that you have oil to the rockers, I think we can rule that out as the problem. I'd lean towards the something fell in the engine theory at this point. If you can see it with the boroscope you might get real lucky and be able to fish it out witout a major teardown.
Paul
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Sounds like you have oil getting to the top, Id just fire it up and look closer for the noise. As much as you dont care for crawling under the Vette grab a flashlight and take a peek at the flexplate first.
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Both nuts are 16MM.
I have the stock TPI fuel rails, and they are the same size.
I have the stock hard lines to the base of the block, where it goes to flex line, to the filter and return on the frame rail.
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Nope, on mine they are the same size. I went to the dealer and got the two different sized O RINGS and when I got home, they were the same and I had to go back and get another large one.
Both nuts are 16MM.
I have the stock TPI fuel rails, and they are the same size.
I have the stock hard lines to the base of the block, where it goes to flex line, to the filter and return on the frame rail.
Both nuts are 16MM.
I have the stock TPI fuel rails, and they are the same size.
I have the stock hard lines to the base of the block, where it goes to flex line, to the filter and return on the frame rail.
-- Joe
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I'm putting up another video right now.....stay tuned.
You can hear the knocking when I turn the key as the starter turns the motor.
You can hear the knocking when I turn the key as the starter turns the motor.
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I still think something is tapping something. flexplate, tcc weight, something..
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It's more of a knock than a knock.
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Originally Posted by jsup
It's more of a knock than a knock.
Originally Posted by jsup
If it is hydrolock, a compression test will tell me if something is up, right? Assuming the rings took a hit.
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Sorry CFI, I meant more than a knock than a tap.
Anyway, here's the new link of the new noise
I think I'm fked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqvSyS0vlE
Anyway, here's the new link of the new noise
I think I'm fked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqvSyS0vlE
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I'm gonna have to agree with Joe. In this video you can see the noise occurs every revolution of the motor, not every other, which pretty much rules out a valvetrain issue. It realy sounds like a rotational component is hitting something (damper, crankshaft, flexplate, etc). I doubt it's something in a cylinder. It's too regular for that, and the starter doesn't pause when it hits that spot. I think it's something hitting sheet-metal somewhere.
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I'm gonna have to agree with Joe. In this video you can see the noise occurs every revolution of the motor, not every other, which pretty much rules out a valvetrain issue. It realy sounds like a rotational component is hitting something (damper, crankshaft, flexplate, etc). I doubt it's something in a cylinder. It's too regular for that, and the starter doesn't pause when it hits that spot. I think it's something hitting sheet-metal somewhere.
He's going to send over the other guy who works with him to listen, then we'll decide if he wants to pull the pan and look around.
At this point, summer's comin' and I want this thing running!!
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I'm gonna have to agree with Joe. In this video you can see the noise occurs every revolution of the motor, not every other, which pretty much rules out a valvetrain issue. It realy sounds like a rotational component is hitting something (damper, crankshaft, flexplate, etc). I doubt it's something in a cylinder. It's too regular for that, and the starter doesn't pause when it hits that spot. I think it's something hitting sheet-metal somewhere.
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Thats what I think it is. The good news is, eventually it will break off. The bad news is, it will probably come through the BH/pan/fender. Could also be the trans. I know Petek about 200 posts ago recommended he unbolt the TC and slide it back. That was never done.
-- Joe
-- Joe
That's why I'm sending it to my mechanic to put on a lift and pull the pan. If I had to do this we'd be talking about this about three weeks from now.
I do appreciate the input, please keep in mind my ability to spend hours under the car in a day is extremely limited.
