engine knocking

Vranes17 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:36 pm

Today on the way home from work as i started her up I hear a strange sound. When I gave it a little gas, the sound went faster, and got louder. Can anyone be of service?

Thanks,
Andrew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2apytN37vQ --Video of the engine bay w/sound. It just happened to be the first time it did it without me on the gas , while I was taping, go figure.

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:10 pm

My guess is that we'll be calling you larry jr.

Vranes17 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:21 pm

lol? its dieing huh?

VMKJCRD · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:27 pm

I could be wrong but it sounds like a piston slapping/knocking....

Hope I am

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:34 pm

if it knocks, answer it ?

how's your oil change habits been, ever ran it hot, etc? whats the current oil look like and what not

it's always next to impossible to diagnose something via youtube clip or something, but yeah sorry feller that ain't good

it doesn't appear to be trembling at idle, chances of it being valve related are fairly small, ya need to start pricing motors if you intend to continue driving the kj

I wouldn't trust it for general transportation knocking like that

KJWildman · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:48 am

stumpjumper_09 wrote:

My guess is that we'll be calling you larry jr.

I have an idea! I know what we could do with it!! :twisted:

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:19 am

KJWildman wrote:

stumpjumper_09 wrote:

My guess is that we'll be calling you larry jr.

I have an idea! I know what we could do with it!! :twisted:

Personally I was thinking he should drop it off with a pile of money and we'll cram a viper v10 into it.

Throw enough money and parts at something and anything is possible.

Vranes17 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:14 pm

Well....I F'ed up bad this time.I completely forgot about my oil. Checked my oil, VERY low. Added a couple quarts this morning and it sort of went away. Its comes and goes now. Going to get a real oil change soon and have the mech. look at it

LI_KJ · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:09 pm

Vranes17 wrote:

Well....I F'ed up bad this time.I completely forgot about my oil. Checked my oil, VERY low. Added a couple quarts this morning and it sort of went away. Its comes and goes now. Going to get a real oil change soon and have the mech. look at it

Hey Andrew. What is the status of your Jeep? Are you getting rid of it, or repairing? I see you are selling the rails, are you getting rid of other parts as well?
Hope things work out for you, but just wondering...

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:04 pm

LI_KJ wrote:

Vranes17 wrote:

Well....I F'ed up bad this time.I completely forgot about my oil. Checked my oil, VERY low. Added a couple quarts this morning and it sort of went away. Its comes and goes now. Going to get a real oil change soon and have the mech. look at it

Hey Andrew. What is the status of your Jeep? Are you getting rid of it, or repairing? I see you are selling the rails, are you getting rid of other parts as well?
Hope things work out for you, but just wondering...

Look out................ :shock:

the
Vultures are starting to circle.............................
:-)r

Vranes17 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:10 pm

-Jeff, only the rails for now. It seems that they are the least needed cause well they arent even on lol.

As for selling or rebuilding, not a clue. Have an apt for the 15th at the garage. We shall see what he says then. Im thinking if the $ is gonna be in the $5k + range, than it makes sense to scrap it, part it out and pick up something else. Maybe a TJ, dont know yet. I figure I can take the lift and tires/wheels off along with the skids and hooks, and see if I can get some $ for those parts if that is the road I choose.

jeep4life7 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:18 pm

better oil and higher octane gas u should be runing 87 octane that and a better quality of gas like shell gas not maverik gas or somthing like that

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:35 pm

Fill it full of Lucas and sell it!!! Forget the OIL just Lucas

Vranes17 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:20 pm

the gas comment was outta left field lol, does it REALLY need to be running 87 cmon never heard of that before. Someone the other day told me to get some Lucas, but I was like oh this guy dosent know crap its just one of those crappy products that dosent benefit. Does it really help?

kskj · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:29 pm

It will help a little. I have a 95 maita it was stolen from me 5 or six years ago. It was involved in a police chase, the guy who stole it got away. But police found the car and called me in the middle of the night to come and pick it up. Ever since then it has a top end noise after it sits over night. I put one quart of lucas in at every oil change and it did make it quieter and is still running after 5 years. But I don't think it will work to long in your case.

Vranes17 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:32 pm

kskj wrote:

It will help a little. I have a 95 maita it was stolen from me 5 or six years ago. It was involved in a police chase, the guy who stole it got away. But police found the car and called me in the middle of the night to come and pick it up. Ever since then it has a top end noise after it sits over night. I put one quart of lucas in at every oil change and it did make it quieter and is still running after 5 years. But I don't think it will work to long in your case.

ya so it wont even make to much of a diff really, but since I HAVE to drive it to get to work I will put some in.

audiboy86 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:54 pm

Well if anything go on ebay find you a motor for a grand or two and do the swap yourself. That is what i would do an engine hoist is about another 3 to 4 hundred but can be re-sold quickly. And it can all be done with hand tools. Just ask wildman how hard it was to remove the motor.

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:11 am

Yeah Lucas works that well. I use it in all my junk engines. But I use nothing but amsoil in all my good engines. Lucas and 20w 50 will take care of just about any engine noise long enough to sell it. :wink:

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:28 am

Just make sure it is your engine first
bad cats make make a heck of a rattle as well, sounding like the whole bottom end is coming out
Motors or good ones are more than a grand. Cheapest I found was 1200 with 100,000 miles and no warranty
found some with 30,000 for 2400/2500
have it checked first and make sure though!

jeep4life7 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:42 pm

Vranes17 wrote:

the gas comment was outta left field lol, does it REALLY need to be running 87 cmon never heard of that before. Someone the other day told me to get some Lucas, but I was like oh this guy dosent know crap its just one of those crappy products that dosent benefit. Does it really help?

Thats wat it says in the mauel

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