Kocking Sound

[Sneakyazn]

If its a knocking sounds that seems like its coming from the rocket cover, or somewhere below, the harmonic balancer might be loose. You can tell if you rev the engine and the tapping increases. Obviously while at higher speeds it will be unnoticable. If this sounds like a familar story you could be ok and its as simple as just tightening the bolt which feeds through the harmonic balancer, may also need to adjusts your belts as well. However if you have left it for to long and its slowly come loose over a period of time which btw will be completly oblivious to you, kind of like a cancer through your bottom end and treating cancer is expensive...aka bottom rebuild. Never the less if your only just noticed you might be ok, as i bloody hope so, but i sugguest you get your car to an expierencd mechine asap, as this is an inherent curse RB's carry, i know i had cancer too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMkOOFyCp80 well this is the sound of my engine and its coming from where the front of the block is i havnt drivin it around since like.... 5 mnths ago sorta sitting around doing nothing i crank it over a few times to keep things lively but yea just noticed this noise.

[Sneakyazn]

well in my other links this other guy that had the exact identical problem had changed all his belts and the noise was gone, so i might have a similar issue as i really don't know when my belts are due but it seems to be over due for em or something coming up on 111,000 k's so everything needs to be changed. timing, water pump etc. and get em to tighten the harmonic balancer or w/e at the same time. but yea cheers 4 the help.

[autoworx]

its probably a bearing

have a long think about spending 1000$ + on your 100k service on an engine with quite high possibility of being stuffed.

[R32 Driver]

drop the oil and get it analysed?

because if it is the big end, spending 1k to service it now is a waste

[Sneakyazn]

its probably a bearing

have a long think about spending 1000$ + on your 100k service on an engine with quite high possibility of being stuffed.

as in a spun bearing? i hope not ><

[Sneakyazn]

drop the oil and get it analysed?

because if it is the big end, spending 1k to service it now is a waste

as in check for metal shavings or anything like that right??

[R32 Driver]

Get an oil test done and you should get high PQ levels which would indicate ferrous material in the oil other than bearings.

Obviously high levels of copper and lead will indicate bearing failure as a result of this.

Wear Check Australia are the people to call for the test kits, cost about $35-40 and takes a few days to get the results.

Don't dump the oil out of it until the test sample is taken

Quote taken from another member under the FI sub-forum

[Sneakyazn]

Get an oil test done and you should get high PQ levels which would indicate ferrous material in the oil other than bearings.

Obviously high levels of copper and lead will indicate bearing failure as a result of this.

Wear Check Australia are the people to call for the test kits, cost about $35-40 and takes a few days to get the results.

Don't dump the oil out of it until the test sample is taken

Quote taken from another member under the FI sub-forum

true, cheers 4 the info guess ill get that done in a few weeks guess ill post on how it goes, till then thnx for the help pplz