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yo peeps

my mates RB25 (s2) is all of a sudden making a funny noise kinda sounds like a bearing

it was fine like a week ago, hasnt been driven.. now all of a sudden this noise

tried unplugging vvt but that didnt fix it, it feels like its coming from under the rocker cover

the engine is stock, unopened etc

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take it to a mech. asap! i wish i had gone to see one earlier. i started hearing a similar noise, took it to my mech, turns out harmonic balancer had come loose... left it too long and had damaged my crank :D

hopefully this isnt your problem.

-trel

This is screwed... i have just changed the spark plugs... but i took it for a few drives and it never made any noise..

Then a couple days before i moved overseas i started the engine and it was fine no noises at all..... so i dno how a noise like that could suddenly come up?

worst of all is i now like in U.A.E and im trying to get rid of the car soon as possible.....

Could be valve guides in the head. :worship:

i dont see how the valve guides could make that noise?... i dont think its the valves themselves because i bent valves and it make a different sound to that..... so i dont think its bent valves.

if valve guide were stuffed... then oil would be getting into the cylinders and there would be smoke coming out the exhaust?

I hope it could just be the water pump?

otherwise what sort of bearings are in the head?

Idler pulley bro.

It sounds SO much worse than it is though huh? I crapped myself when mine started doing it. But with mine it went away after the car warmed up.

Check out my vid:

Same noise more or less. I changed my belts/idler/tensioner, goneburger :P

Idler pulley bro.

It sounds SO much worse than it is though huh? I crapped myself when mine started doing it. But with mine it went away after the car warmed up.

Check out my vid:

Same noise more or less. I changed my belts/idler/tensioner, goneburger :P

thanks for that man very helpful! i will get a gates kit and replace everything, its due for it anyway

let you guys know the results

if your not sure take it to a mechanic that is..... to me it sounds like it may be a few different things so best to take it to someone that can u tell u for sure and pinpoint the problem before it gets worse....

could me your lifters if u say it started doing it after sitting there for alittle while.

if your not sure take it to a mechanic that is..... to me it sounds like it may be a few different things so best to take it to someone that can u tell u for sure and pinpoint the problem before it gets worse....

could me your lifters if u say it started doing it after sitting there for alittle while.

the timing belt is due anyway so doesnt bother me or the owner to change it, he's giving me $100 to do it anyway :D

its not the lifters i know what they sound like

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