When i first got my t top car It was all stock except for a
vortech a trim. So i toof off the mechanical fan and put on an electric one. Not long after that it started to have a tapping/knocking noise that really sounded more like a rod bearing knock!!
CRAP! JUST WONDERFUL!!!!
So a friend of mine(the guy i bought the car from) asked me what i used for the water pump pulley bolts and i told him the stock ones. He said that you have to use washers because they go the whole way through the pulley and hit on the casting on the back of the punp, making a tapping noise. Sounded right so i put washers behind the bolts and GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? ??? I started it up and the tapping was still there!!!!!
So i got to looking at the belt and noticed that the tensioner was jumping up and down a lil bit and thought that was it. So i replaced it and guess what!! Nothing tapping was still there!
So now im pissed and kinda worried that maybe it was a rod bearing so i changed the oil to kinda prolong the inevitable and just said to hell with it and DRIVE IT TIL IT BLOWS!!!
So i go to start it and take it for maybe one of her last rides and right as it starts to turn over i hear this TING TING noise!! WTH now what! Shut it off and pop the hood and look down and theres a three inch bolt laying on the ground! Looks like a pulley bolt!
Well it was a pulley bolt! Crank pulley bolt! Because of the blower its got two crank pulleys, stock one inside of the vortech one and they give you longer bolts to accommodate. Well one bolt fell out and the other two were a little loose so evwrytime the pulley would go around the part that was the loosest would lift off the balancer and slam back down on causing what sounded like a rod knock!! Tightened them all back up and NO KNOCK!!!
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU THINK YOUR NEVER GONNA FIGURE IT OUT, YOUR BOLT FALLS OUT AND GIVES YOU A SIGN FROM CAR HEAVEN!!!! jus stick with it you will figure it out!
Could be anything really! If its an automatic maybe a torque converter bolt worked its way out a little and its hitting the block Plate? Mybe its not to do with the cam or lifters or rocker at all?.........