End of VP's life

[Abrowne70]

So to make a long story short, was driving perfectly, i then stopped turned it off had a look at someones car, after i had finished that started my car up and heard a loud rattling from inside the motor, proceed to do a u turn and then it kept rattling so i turned it off and rolled down the hill.

Im pretty sure its the end of that motors life.

Anyone know what it could be, will save me pulling the whole thing apart

[Pub247]

lol i love these thread its so hard tell someone what it is over the net and rattling could be a myriad of different noises.
Best its timing chain and or tensioner
next balance shaft bearing
last and worse what happened to my vp camshaft bearings spun and chewed the shit out of the camshaft

those are my 3 guesses
You could still drive it if it were the above but itd get worse if it was the cam die soonish

[excalibur]

possibly the harmonic balancer

[Pub247]

they dont rattle though they make a loud banging clanging noise when theyre flogged out or vibrate badly if on the way out

[Abrowne70]

could very well be the camshaft bearings, deffiantly sounds like a bearing being F***ed and yeah still acts like i can drive it but dont wanna make anything worse.

Hopefully its camshaft and thats it, ill get a regrind in there and new bearing and she'll be happy as larrry.

[Abrowne70]

just went and had a look at it again, looks to be the harmonic balancer i think, now to buy a new one and get the old one off

[greenfoam]

That was a short lived but somewhat over dramitc end of life :P

Edit: I just realised how this looks like in the main thread at the minute, don't have a heart attack Morton! my VP is fine

[social]

curious to know, whats your oil level like mate...

[Morton]

That was a short lived but somewhat over dramitc end of life :P

Edit: I just realised how this looks like in the main thread at the minute, don't have a heart attack Morton! my VP is fine

Thank god for that

Hopefully it IS the harmonic balancer - it's the cheapest problem from the list

[Abrowne70]

oils fine, only serviced 2 weeks ago, ill be putting pics up soon.

How about this, the house i left it parked infront of, got broken into over night, i was like WTF as if, my poor car, but she was still there when i went and checked today and got notified that the police checked my car to make sure it wasnt involved with the break in of the house.

[Abrowne70]

and here are the pictures, pretty rooted if you ask me

[anarklov3r]

Lol! That is pretty rooted... Pretty lucky you got the cheapest problem. Takea proper pic once you remove it so we can have a good laugh

[Abrowne70]

no problems, might have it off tonight otherwise tomorrow it is. yes it defiantly is pretty rooted, are there any other things that could be damaged due to this

[Calaber]

Good luck with the bolt. I think they're pretty bloody tight and a bugger to undo.

[Abrowne70]

the trick is to use a 22mm socket and long breaker bar and wedge it behind the chassis on passenger side and crank the engine over and it undoes it.

Any she is now home back at my place and im very happy.