Member Since: 22 Feb 2013
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Oh no1 I can't be that unlucky can I??? Engine gone???
Ticking noise from the engine, not always there. Happens randomly, doesn't increase with revs. I thought maybe viscus fan or something.
Runs sweet as a nut and sounds fine, just randomly makes this tick.
Im just uploading a video to you tube, its sounds suspisciosly like one I heard on here a few weeks back that turned out to be a dud engine.
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2nd Feb 2019 3:20 pm
sasdiscos
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You remind me of a younger me, not much younger mind...perhaps even a little older!
2nd Feb 2019 3:22 pm
lynalldiscovery
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Pop the fan belt off and run it again, not for long mind!
2nd Feb 2019 3:26 pm
sasdiscos
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Problem is, its only there randomly, so it did it when i videoed it, but then stiopped, went to my mums, fine, started and stopped a few times, then back home all fine. Washed it, all fine, took for a blast up the road, haven't been able to replicate it again.
It did it once before about 4 weeks ago I noticed it.
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2nd Feb 2019 3:29 pm
sasdiscos
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It sounds far too much like markyboys, thats whats got me worried. He's turned out to be fkd!
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2nd Feb 2019 3:31 pm
jonno1
Member Since: 16 Jun 2010
Location: SW London
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Sounds like a tensioner to me. If you shine a torch down onto the tensioner you may be lucky and see it jumping rythmically.
2nd Feb 2019 3:31 pm
sasdiscos
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Cant really tell but the tensioner seems to be moving a bit, no noise at the mo.
If it was big end bearings how long would it last? It happened 4 weeks ago or more last time, so i would assume it would have gone bang by now.
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It’s so intermittent it takes me by suppose. I heard it today so I jumped out and took the video. As you can hear it fades in and out. Then disappears all together for another month.
I say it doesn’t increase with speed, but I haven’t properly tested it.
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2nd Feb 2019 4:25 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
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sasdiscos wrote:
It sounds far too much like markyboys, thats whats got me worried. He's turned out to be fkd!
That is also the viscous fan, but when I looked at the car, there was another low down, much deeper knock from the bottom end that can't really be heard in the videoMy D3 Build Thread
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DM, can it be left like that until I get it serviced? What actually makes the ticking, is there a clutch in there?
Many thanks.
SteveYou remind me of a younger me, not much younger mind...perhaps even a little older!
2nd Feb 2019 4:27 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
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sasdiscos wrote:
It’s so intermittent it takes me by suppose. I heard it today so I jumped out and took the video. As you can hear it fades in and out. Then disappears all together for another month.
I say it doesn’t increase with speed, but I haven’t properly tested it.
Steve
Unplug the fan, the noise will stop from memory.
May need the fan/Aux belt taken off, but the noise is from the clutch on the fan hubMy D3 Build Thread
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