Strange engine noises - fixed
05-17-2015, 11:45 AM
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Strange engine noises - fixed
So I thought I share this in case someone has a similar issue 
I just fixed my car and was bringing a friend of mine to the station as sort of a test. I accelerated hard and while accelerating suddenly the engine pull became smaller. The engine then sounded weird and had hardly any power.
A couple minutes later it was running well again, so I tried it again, accelerated hard. Blam, there it went again. Low power. So I decided the drive home.
In the video below the culprit is shown. A cooling fluid hose was loose because a hose clamp was rusted completely through. The fluid then splashed on the coil below it interfering with the ignition of the half the cylinders. I was driving on 4 cylinders!
I just fixed my car and was bringing a friend of mine to the station as sort of a test. I accelerated hard and while accelerating suddenly the engine pull became smaller. The engine then sounded weird and had hardly any power.
A couple minutes later it was running well again, so I tried it again, accelerated hard. Blam, there it went again. Low power. So I decided the drive home.
In the video below the culprit is shown. A cooling fluid hose was loose because a hose clamp was rusted completely through. The fluid then splashed on the coil below it interfering with the ignition of the half the cylinders. I was driving on 4 cylinders!
