Help! I think I blew my engine
12-29-2002, 03:01 AM
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Help! I think I blew my engine
Earlier today I noticed a ticking sound coming from the engine that rose in freqency with the RPMs. The engine ran fine today, I gave it some gas coming around a corner and the engine stalled out. When I started it back up, it wanted to stall again, so I kept the throttle into it and it sputtered the last 1/4 mile to my house, not going more than 10mph with it floored.
Any ideas? Maybe a stuck lifter? I hope it isnt the dreaded #2 rod bearing.
Any ideas? Maybe a stuck lifter? I hope it isnt the dreaded #2 rod bearing.
12-29-2002, 03:42 AM
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Might have something to do with running 19psi of boost. I don't think your injectors(if stock) could keep up with that. You may have run into a lean mixture problem. Aside from the ticking noise, the running problem you described happened to me when I blew off the boot from the IC pipe to the Throttle body. The ticking could be a lifter tapping.
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12-29-2002, 07:17 PM
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Well, I checked the vaccum system again and I noticed I had blown off the blowoff valve (no pun intended). It was dark last night I guess that is why I didn't see it the first time. As for the ticking sound, it was a lifter, and I added a lifter freeing product to the oil and it fixed that immediately.
12-30-2002, 04:35 AM
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[quote]Originally posted by Rich Sandor:
<strong>my engine makes a ticking sound too when idling.. it's quite noticable. what is it?</strong><hr></blockquote>
injectors perhaps? i know with hondas (i used to have an rsx) they can be quite noisy, i wonder if our cars are the same...
<strong>my engine makes a ticking sound too when idling.. it's quite noticable. what is it?</strong><hr></blockquote>
injectors perhaps? i know with hondas (i used to have an rsx) they can be quite noisy, i wonder if our cars are the same...
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01-01-2003, 02:55 PM
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I used a product called sea foam. It is available at any napa auto parts store. It actually freed up the lifter about 2 miles after I added it to the oil. 
01-02-2003, 02:37 AM
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Glad your problem was your BOV, I know how you felt. I also have a lifter tap, I was going to go for the Marvel Mystery Oil, but am leary of putting additives in my car.
Chris
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'86 951 suspension stuff, clutch with racing pp, tial 35mm, stage II chips, mbc @ 15psi.
01-02-2003, 06:57 PM
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Guys.. would this lifter tapping be more notisable in cold starts? I have a 85 n/a and its common for it to rattle in cold starts even more if its been a while since the oil change..
