Need help...Identify this sound
07-13-2007 | 11:13 PM
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Need help...Identify this sound
Well, this morning I went out to go to a friends started the car up and noticed a strange ticking sound coming from the engine...started to reverse out and it was just hesitating to move. So I got out and poped the hood and you can hear this ticking type sound every so often coming from the passenger side of the engine bay. I checked the spark plugs to make sure there not coming off ( stock wires don't fit to well on that side) but they were all on. So then I let the car sit and cool down and checked to make sure the headers weren't coming loose and there on tight. So I have no idea what it is, but I do have the check engine light now. I was busy with my parents today so I couldn't take the car to auto zone, plan to do so tomorrow if nobody knows what it is. I did take a video of it and you can hear it...a couple members here saw it and heard it.
http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y68...t=6845990c.flv
http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y68...t=6845990c.flv
07-14-2007 | 12:51 AM
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Cant really tell anything by the video, Get like a metal rod and hold it on the valve cover and put your ear up to it and see if you could hear your valves or rockers ticking. Could be a bent rod or somethin. I cant really tell by the video its hard to tell. Best bet would be to see what code you are throwing since you have the check engine light on.
07-14-2007 | 10:00 AM
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HAA HAH, guess you're worried, that's why u put "trunk". I agree with the others, hard to tell by the video.
Did u scan it already? is it a SES light on???
Looks to me as far as i can hear like some kind of trouble with the sparkplugs or wires (if u have trouble with hesitation), but could be a million things as they said. Good luck.
Did u scan it already? is it a SES light on???
Looks to me as far as i can hear like some kind of trouble with the sparkplugs or wires (if u have trouble with hesitation), but could be a million things as they said. Good luck.
07-14-2007 | 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by archemedes
get a dark area (very dark) start the engine and look at the wires. I'll bet you have a wire arcing
07-15-2007 | 12:21 AM
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haha i love how you got the exhaust sound clip in there when diagnosing your engine noise 
what a man.
I can hear the sound fine, and Im with arch, to me it sounds like electricity popping. hard to tell from a vid, but could be somthing with plugs and wires... but yeah, scan code first to see what its reading.
what a man.I can hear the sound fine, and Im with arch, to me it sounds like electricity popping. hard to tell from a vid, but could be somthing with plugs and wires... but yeah, scan code first to see what its reading.
07-15-2007 | 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by paarman97maro
haha i love how you got the exhaust sound clip in there when diagnosing your engine noise what a man.
what a man.
Turned out to be 2 spark plug wires were bad, replaced with with 2 new 40" wires from autozone. They have the 90 degree bend on both ends so the fitment is perfect. The car is now running smooth and no more check engine.
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