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Posted by lsxoo7 (Member # 8587) on :
 
Ok ok this car is driving me craazy !!

just in case anyone remebers about a month back my 88 coupe started making some clanking/wierd noise,,

at first i tought it might have been a spun bearing .. but i had a few people say it was most likely a lifter or the rockers and maybe even a bent valve .

i just recently started working on it again . replaced the lifters pushrods and rockers . had the heads checked and nothing everything fine .But i bought new edelbroks heads anyways .

the only thing that i did find was a blown header gasket .

All new gaskets , heads , lifters, pushrods rockers , and alooot of time later the fucken noise is still there !! .. so now im sure its a spun bearing ...

can i be wrong its making the same exact noise as when it had the other combo . so im pissed . alot of money and time later and i could have been a spun bearing the whole time a cheap used block could have fixed my problem weekss ago..

any ideas ! Some one before i trown this thing in the trash .
 

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Posted by **I TAKE THE POPO'S ON ONE** (Member # 8169) on :
 
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT DONT THROW IT GIVE IT 2 ME, I SAY IT THE BEARING IF NOT JUST DO WHAT YOU SHOUDLVE DONE GET A NEW BLOCK
 

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Posted by 1991 SSP COUPE 331 TWIN TURBO (Member # 7840) on :
 
Check you flywheel, but does sound like a bearing
 

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Posted by lsxoo7 (Member # 8587) on :
 
check the flywheel for what ? its making a taping noise . and another wierd noise ..

fucken thing makes noises everywere ! .. its coming from 1 side of the block ..

i can get it running but its still on the maf conversion "learn it self mode" so it has to run for a while to not run like shit ..

if i can figure it our im just run it till it blows or creates another noise or fixes it self lol . this thing is frustraiting the hell out of me and this isnt my main project .. so most of my money is stuck in my other cars and bike ..

i dunno i might just trow in another spare block and see what happends ..
 

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Posted by JohnB (Member # 969) on :
 
Does the noise increase with the speed of the engine?

I had a buddy once who thought it killed the bottom end of his motor, turned out to be a bent index plate for the transmission. It was rubbing on the flywheel...
 

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Posted by Adam5.0 (Member # 6995) on :
 
try grounding out the spark plug wire to each cylinder at a time and see if it goes away. if it stops then you a least have narrowed it down to 1 cylinder. thats if its a rod knock

[ November 03, 2008, 10:53 PM: Message edited by: Adam5.0 ]
 

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Posted by 92stangLX (Member # 3252) on :
 
Could be time for a rebuild Do a compression check on the motor and see what you find.
 

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Posted by lsxoo7 (Member # 8587) on :
 
ill try all of these ideas tomorrow . ill try a compression check .. whats a good number to have on these engines ?

ill look around and see what else it could posibly be..

i havent driven the car yet since the top end re-build up so ill see whats going on with it tomorrow .

hopefully its sumthing minimal but with the luck ive had with this mustang its prob not ..

any other ideas ?.. its a wierd noise and a lil hard to explain .. ill see if i can get a video of it .. its hard to hear but i knw its there ...
 

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Posted by 8stang8 (Member # 8082) on :
 
Whether the eninge is new or worn/tired they must all be close to each other...
 

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Posted by lsxoo7 (Member # 8587) on :
 
man i think this car is gona have to sit for a bit .
the car wnt even stay arms and my stearing is all fucked up cause of the new subframe i put in ..

ill try a compression check and see whats up//

would it be esier to just re-ring it and put new bearing in it ?
 

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Posted by jaejae (Member # 7958) on :
 

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Originally posted by lsxoo7:
man i think this car is gona have to sit for a bit .
the car wnt even stay arms and my stearing is all fucked up cause of the new subframe i put in ..

ill try a compression check and see whats up//

would it be esier to just re-ring it and put new bearing in it ?

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Originally posted by lsxoo7:
oh yeah and i was planing on changing all of them and re ringing all the pistons as well as some honening ..

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buy the 306 block or just bore yours out and get engine assembly from d.s.s..maybe 331 or 347
 

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Posted by lsxoo7 (Member # 8587) on :
 
ill see if that deal with the 306 gets done ..

whats the easiest way to get a 400+ci in these ponys ? stroked 351 ?
 

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Posted by svfreerider87 (Member # 5748) on :
 

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Originally posted by lsxoo7:
ill see if that deal with the 306 gets done ..

whats the easiest way to get a 400+ci in these ponys ? stroked 351 ?

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Originally posted by lsxoo7:
ill see if that deal with the 306 gets done ..

whats the easiest way to get a 400+ci in these ponys ? stroked 351 ?

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