What are the symptoms of the main bearing going out?

[Jim Green]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:35:01 -0700, Jason Broussard
<ijbroussard at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I want to start with thanking everybody for their help and suggestions when
> I had the coolant line burst. It turned out that no head gasket damage
> occurred. All the smoke was from a collapsed PCV hose. With that said onto
> the newest problem.
> My 91 200 20V has a knocking coming from the oil pan. Actually sounds like
> something is hitting it from the inside.  The sound has a patter of three
> quick knocks followed by a second or two of no knocking, then repeated
> again. Is this a sign of the bearing spinning?


Yuck.  Sound like when I spun a rod bearing.  Did you run the car low
on oil when the PCV hose collapsed?
-- 
Jim Green
'89 90tq
'89 80q
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