[Chevelle-list] Engine noise!

Wed May 23 02:02:27 MDT 2007

Honestly! I don’t know!

I bought the car 2003 & didn’t notice anything then!

But in 2004 I started to hear this noise & since then it only got

worse until #8 practically stopped working.

I was a little bit surprised to find out that the lifters where mechanical!?

Anyway, I’m changing them to hyd flats, or rollers if I can raise the money?

The damage in #8 cylinder is probably due to an old water leak?

Could not find any signs of water leaks in the head gasket so I

guess they just ignored it when they changed the head gaskets.

Pelle

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[mailto:chevelle-list-bounces at chevelles.net] För Rick Schaefer
Skickat: den 23 maj 2007 02:33
Till: The Chevelle Mailing List
Ämne: Re: [Chevelle-list] Engine noise!

OUCH!   How many miles, OOPS kilometers, does that cam have on it?

On 5/22/07, Pelle Andersson <chevellegearheads at hotmail.com> wrote: 

I'm going to rebuild the engine!
Check the links & you'll see what I mean!
Sorry for not being clear, I just assumed everyone knew ;-) 
I've discussed this matter back and forth at another Swedish forum &
mixed it up!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/504408105_ec9665fc5c_b.jpg 
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/503491365_5ef7b38c80_b.jpg

Best regards Pelle

>From: John Nasta < <mailto:69ec at johnnasta.com>  69ec at johnnasta.com>
>Reply-To: The Chevelle Mailing List <chevelle-list at chevelles.net>
>To: chevelle-list at chevelles.net 
>Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Engine noise!
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:39:33 -0400
>
>Unfortunately you should not have taken the heads off. You should have
>tried draining a pint of oil and replacing it with a high-detergent  oil 
>(like Marvel Mystery Oil or transmission fluid) for 100 miles or  so and
>then changing the oil and adjusting the valves. You probably  could have
>gotten the tap out and you would have been driving again in  no time. 
>
>What makes you thing it's a worn cam rather than a bad lifter?
>
>Even if it is a worn cam, why would you have the block machined? You  have
>to take the intake manifold off to replace the cam and/or  lifters, not the

>heads.
>
>Sorry, but none of what you wrote makes a whole lot of sense to me. I
>don't know the whole story but it sounds like you made things go from  bad
>to worse.
>
>
>Quoting Pelle Andersson <chevellegearheads at hotmail.com>:
>
>>Now I know what it was!
>>A worn down lobe on the cam (#8)
>>I removed the heads just to check and found out that #8 had problems. 
>>I have to leave the block for some machining :-(
>>
>>No driving this summer :-/
>>
>>http://www.flickr.com/photos/pellechevelle/sets/72157600027680861/ 
>>
>>Pelle
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Pelle Andersson
>>   To: The Chevelle Mailing List
>>   Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:29 PM
>>   Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Engine noise! 
>>
>>
>>   A sticky lifter could explain why it's running colder on #8!?
>>   Maybe we're on to something here :-)
>>
>>   Pelle
>>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>>     From: Carl Ziegler
>>     To: The Chevelle Mailing List
>>     Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:38 PM
>>     Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Engine noise!
>>
>>
>>     Sounds like either an exhaust leak or a sticky lifter to me.  My $.02

>>
>>
>>     ----- Original Message ----
>>     From: Pelle Andersson <chevellegearheads at hotmail.com>
>>     To: The Chevelle Mailing List < chevelle-list at chevelles.net>
>>     Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 6:18:47 AM
>>     Subject: [Chevelle-list] Engine noise!
>>
>>
>>     Hi! 
>>
>>
>>
>>     I have this strange noise during acceleration!
>>
>>     Sounds a little bit like a bolt tapping my M/T aluminum valve
>>covers but a tad sharper! 
>>
>>     No marks in the valve covers indicating that anything is hitting
>>them!
>>
>>     I've tried to adjust timing back & forth 16-8 degrees but it's
>>still the same! 
>>
>>     It's in sync with the rpm & I can only hear it when accelerating
>>hard!
>>
>>
>>
>>     Any ideas?
>>
>>     Pelle
>> 
>>
>>
>>
>>
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