I recently changed the idle pulley, powersteering pump and main pulley, about two weeks later went over a bump in the road the jolted the front end a little too hard, since then I have been hearing a bad metal scraping noise coming from the engine bay.
The noise is impossible to locate the source and happens when the car is idling or travelling very slow, it stops when the car is moving faster.
The sound also happens more in warmer weather and sometimes not at all in cooler weather.
I had my mechanic look at it and he couldnt locate the problem either, he said the harmonic balancer was ok and it could be the timing chain, but the sound seems to be around all the pulleys.
This is driving me crazy as i dont want to spend any mor emoney on the car but if it a simple or cheap fix then i will.
Any suggestions as to what i causing the sound would be greatly appreciated.
The noise is impossible to locate the source and happens when the car is idling or travelling very slow, it stops when the car is moving faster.
The sound also happens more in warmer weather and sometimes not at all in cooler weather.
I had my mechanic look at it and he couldnt locate the problem either, he said the harmonic balancer was ok and it could be the timing chain, but the sound seems to be around all the pulleys.
This is driving me crazy as i dont want to spend any mor emoney on the car but if it a simple or cheap fix then i will.
Any suggestions as to what i causing the sound would be greatly appreciated.