Thankyou Corvette Forum!!
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Racer
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Thankyou Corvette Forum!!
As some of you may seen my past threads about how my vette has a bad case of pistonslap and how it buged the pi$$ out of me,well a lot of you said to try a K&N oil filter and a thicker oil.well i did and viola!!!!
now dont get me wrong its still there but its a LOT QUIETER.I used to hear it slappin away when i was in my house, now you have to open the hood to hear it!!!!!!! i can live with that
thanks again all, this forum ROCKS!!!!!!!!
now dont get me wrong its still there but its a LOT QUIETER.I used to hear it slappin away when i was in my house, now you have to open the hood to hear it!!!!!!! i can live with that
thanks again all, this forum ROCKS!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by sorbet70
As some of you may seen my past threads about how my vette has a bad case of pistonslap and how it buged the pi$$ out of me,well a lot of you said to try a K&N oil filter and a thicker oil.well i did and viola!!!!
now dont get me wrong its still there but its a LOT QUIETER.I used to hear it slappin away when i was in my house, now you have to open the hood to hear it!!!!!!! i can live with that
thanks again all, this forum ROCKS!!!!!!!!
now dont get me wrong its still there but its a LOT QUIETER.I used to hear it slappin away when i was in my house, now you have to open the hood to hear it!!!!!!! i can live with that
thanks again all, this forum ROCKS!!!!!!!!
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Racer
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From: NY
i used mobil 1 10w-30. i had 5 in there and some folks said that changing to 10 would not help much on the ticking issue.but i think its the combo of changing to a thicker oil and a K&N filter that helped.
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Originally Posted by sorbet70
As some of you may seen my past threads about how my vette has a bad case of pistonslap and how it buged the pi$$ out of me,well a lot of you said to try a K&N oil filter and a thicker oil.well i did and viola!!!!
now dont get me wrong its still there but its a LOT QUIETER.I used to hear it slappin away when i was in my house, now you have to open the hood to hear it!!!!!!! i can live with that
thanks again all, this forum ROCKS!!!!!!!!
now dont get me wrong its still there but its a LOT QUIETER.I used to hear it slappin away when i was in my house, now you have to open the hood to hear it!!!!!!! i can live with that
thanks again all, this forum ROCKS!!!!!!!!
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Nice that you were able to get it to quiet down.