1.8laser90
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jun 8, 2003
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alliance,
Ohio
hey guys,
I have a 2.0T awd. i'm really about done with this car, its a real pain in my but and i'm losing my intrerest in this engine! well the car has gone threw 4 sets of valves i think ? its bent them so many times i can't remember, but the reason they bent the last time was becuase the tensioner went bad, so we replaced it and after installing the head with all new gaskets and the head being rebiult AGAIN it ran great the whole day! The next day, its at night and we decided to go some where so i start it up and it cranks and starts but stumbles and the idle is jumping round so i give it gas and revs fine but just doesn't seem right.. so after driveing it i stop at my parents house, i park it and let it run and i here this noise. so i pop the hood and i here this slapping /tapping noise comming from the timming area.. so i'm hopeing its not the valves hitting the pistons again, trust me i know what that sounds like!
but it didn't seem like that was it and the head was quiet. so my bro takes it home and said it ran fine the whole way home, which is about 10 min. he took it easy on it also.. so the next day i stop by to take a look at it. i go to take a wrench to crank it up to tdc and all that is moving is just the crank! the belt is just poping right over the crank!! so i'm like thank God i didn't try starting it or it would of bin bent valves all over again. so i thought that noise just must of bin the belt slapping on somthing from being so loose. I tear it apart to find that the new tensioner had totaly broke. So i send it back and a week later i get a new one sent to me again, i then install it and put it back together. It seems fine but heres my problem when you rev the engine up to maybe 4k + there is a very loud vibration type sound. Its really anoyeing and won't go away! Its sounded like this before and it went away after getting the head and valves redone, the last time it jumped timming, now its back! is it the valves again ? it runs fine and pools great but it seems like it effects the way it revs becuase i could hit redline before easily now its so loud or a loud vibration i don't want to rev that high. Could someone PLEASE give some ideas ! i just want to be able to drive this car more than a day or 2 before somthing goes totaly wrong! thanks alot... Cory ... i also rechecked the timming again today, everything lines up perfect.
I have a 2.0T awd. i'm really about done with this car, its a real pain in my but and i'm losing my intrerest in this engine! well the car has gone threw 4 sets of valves i think ? its bent them so many times i can't remember, but the reason they bent the last time was becuase the tensioner went bad, so we replaced it and after installing the head with all new gaskets and the head being rebiult AGAIN it ran great the whole day! The next day, its at night and we decided to go some where so i start it up and it cranks and starts but stumbles and the idle is jumping round so i give it gas and revs fine but just doesn't seem right.. so after driveing it i stop at my parents house, i park it and let it run and i here this noise. so i pop the hood and i here this slapping /tapping noise comming from the timming area.. so i'm hopeing its not the valves hitting the pistons again, trust me i know what that sounds like!
but it didn't seem like that was it and the head was quiet. so my bro takes it home and said it ran fine the whole way home, which is about 10 min. he took it easy on it also.. so the next day i stop by to take a look at it. i go to take a wrench to crank it up to tdc and all that is moving is just the crank! the belt is just poping right over the crank!! so i'm like thank God i didn't try starting it or it would of bin bent valves all over again. so i thought that noise just must of bin the belt slapping on somthing from being so loose. I tear it apart to find that the new tensioner had totaly broke. So i send it back and a week later i get a new one sent to me again, i then install it and put it back together. It seems fine but heres my problem when you rev the engine up to maybe 4k + there is a very loud vibration type sound. Its really anoyeing and won't go away! Its sounded like this before and it went away after getting the head and valves redone, the last time it jumped timming, now its back! is it the valves again ? it runs fine and pools great but it seems like it effects the way it revs becuase i could hit redline before easily now its so loud or a loud vibration i don't want to rev that high. Could someone PLEASE give some ideas ! i just want to be able to drive this car more than a day or 2 before somthing goes totaly wrong! thanks alot... Cory ... i also rechecked the timming again today, everything lines up perfect.
