ok...my engine's making excessive noise for some odd reason...don't recall it being this loud when i put it in about 7 months ago. I've read about LMA's but not sure if that's the problem because this engine has roughly 75k miles on it, and from reading there was no specific time from or mileage when they may need replacing. Also, it seems as though i need my valve seals replace...would this add to the noise? I had the valves adjusted about 3 months ago and it seemed to quiet it down, but now it seems louder.

here's a vid i took today

 

Bad audio quality, sounds like a rod. Seems like too much noise to be valve train. I'm assuming the motor has spent a lot of its life in some higher RPM's? What oil are you running? Valve seals don't make noise, they just cause you to drink oil. (Open the oil fill with the engine running, if its pumping out tons of smoke, your seals are either case, still sounds like Mr. Rod wants to come out. Time to go pick out a casket. . . or a 100 shot!

 

i'm using Castrol 5w30 and on any given day it sees 8600 rpm atleast once or twice

 

you dumb. k-series..lol

Sound like you have rod knock. Drain your oil and see if any signs of metal shreds come out. You probably spun a bearing and need a rebuilt.


Good luck.

 

i probably would...turned out to be the throw-out bearing...and my B16b is good

that's what i thought it was...but i press the clutch in, it goes away, let it out, and it comes back...spun a bearing a few months ago and this had me on edge so i misdiagnosed the problem

 

oh ok. It sounded like a rod knock fromt he videol.

 

be carefully just cause u push the clutch does not always mean its a thow out bearing, iv seen a few times where its acutally a bearing in the tranny that is making the noise and when u press the clutch it stops spinning so the noise stops....

 

thanks for that info...wouldn't have considered that...

 

bearing in the transmission

 

im in this same boat man..gettin my tranny rebuilt so i know its 100% reliable..