Does this sound like a seal, bearings, or even a bad cam gear..

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OK.. a couple of days ago i was sitting in my driveway revving my car to about 3000-3500..than all of a sudden i start hearing this wierd clanking sound (kinda like some shaking rocks in a can), and i see a couple puffs of smoke from under the hood (general turbo - Jpipe area)so i shut the car off get out and the next thing i know im standing in a really big puddle of oil...after days of troubleshooting i finally found were it came from..i have a picture...it may seem alittle wierd but just try to picture the t-belt and cam gear missing, and all you see is the side of the of the block...

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Also too I do have the 6 bolt - 15k miles ago
along with a fresh oil change...done TODAY!!

 

[blackbyrd]

The knock sound may or not be serious. It could be attributed to a loss of oil obviously, but the damages it may or may not have done... Smoke was probably the oil burning off the engine/manfiold when it was sprayed. Weird place for the oil to leak behind that bolt. Have you checked to make sure it's torqued down to specs(58-72ft-lbs)? There's an oil seal behind the cam sprocket. It also could be your valve cover(small crack or chip)/gasket spraying out right there. Other things around there that could be spraying is the dipstick and the oil cap.

I guess, if I were you I would change all of those gaskets and retorque the camshaft sprockets. I'd check out the valvetrain real good with the valve cover off. And I'd drop the oil pan to check out the bearings/lower end.

Oh and it took me an hour to try to read the print on those caption boxes in your pictures, haha. You should make the font larger and use a little darker color.. Or maybe I need glasses.. haha

 

[nightspeed87]

from what your showing me it looks like you have bad cam seals for it to be leaking in that area, unless your valve cover isnt tightly secured on the head for some reason.

 

[cumpersgsx]

from what your showing me it looks like you have bad cam seals for it to be leaking in that area, unless your valve cover isnt tightly secured on the head for some reason.

it might also be torqued down too tight. Its only supposed to be like 2-3 lbs if i remember right.The first time I ever replaced my valve cover I torqued mine down really tight and leaked everywhere.

 

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See, the wierd thing is, is that it doesnt spray out..it just heavily pours. i took my valve cover off and everything inside seems to be fine..my valve cover is torqued down correctly new gasket..i just cant figure out why its still coming out..and the sound drives me nuts, its coming from the sprocket area...its really loud
i also to did find a crack but it wasnt anywere close enough to be causing this leak..so i JB welded it smoothed it out..and now its fine

 

[VanIsleDSM]

to you keep your upper timing cover on normally? the only thing I can think of is something got in between your sprocket and the engine and shredded the oil seal.. they can get hard and start leaking.. but not like that.. it must have been damaged.. maybe that sound you hear is whatever got stuck in around the sprocket.. Just speculation.. but look in and around there for something foreign... also.. I don't think the torque of the sprocket bolt will affect the seal at all.. it just seals around the camshaft.. no matter how tight the bolt.. as least it sure looked that way when I just replaced mine.

Maybe you should pull the valve cover and check the cam journal closest to the sprocket.. probably give you some more insight.

 

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Definatley will do..and yes i ALWAYS keep my t-belt cover on, well the top 1 any way..i dont have the middle and lower...i guess i better get those

 

[VanIsleDSM]

yes, you should definitly have those covers on there, you're risking your whole engine! now I'm definitly putting my money on something got stuck in there somewhere.

 

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here is a little video imade to kind of give you an idea.

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[VanIsleDSM]

I wouldn't keep running your engine.. no lower and mid timing covers is definitly not good.. I'd try turning the engine by hand and see if you can figure out what's up... find the problem before you run it though.. you could make something a lot worse.. or snap your tbelt.

The vid is hard to see.. it's definitly coming out pretty fast.. but it also sounds louder near the bottom.. around your crank pully.. I'm not sure what else to say.. tough to tell what the sound is even from the video.. you need to get in there and check it out before you risk anything else though I'd say.... you need some wisemen help.

 

[AgntorangeDSM]

why not just replace the cam seals! there pretty cheap and if it doesn't fix it then move on to the next possibility.... i mean you stated above right below your pic that you have a 6 bolt as of 15k ago.. well when was the last time the guy before you replaced them...?

 

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Problem Solved!!..Cam seals went rock hard on me, and the springs fell apart...but!..it turns out i have bad bearingss in one of me pulleys!!!