4kq: Rod knock <> rod knock.

[Eric Sanborn]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:51:11 +0000, Robert M <porter_t_dog at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     My '87 4kq (95k miles) had been making an alarming clanking noise
> periodically of late, classic rod knock symptoms:  after a cold start, after
> a hot highway run, worse under load.  Before ordering bearings and bolts I
> pulled the pushrod for the aux vacuum pump; seems to have taken care of it.
> 

I had to do the same thing when I got my first car.  That and a hole
in the exhaust sniffer tube that made it sound kind of like bad
lifters.

How by the way do you have so few miles on your car? ;)
-- 

Eric Sanborn
http://sofadog.net/4ktq/