Re: '87 4kq engine noises

[Huw Powell <audi@mediaone.net>]

could be the vacuum pump if you're lucky.  it's on the left side of the
head, in the vacuum line to the brake booster.  it can be taken off, the
drive rod removed, and put back in place, if it is the culprit.

also could be a water pump asking to be replaced.  (timing belt and
crank seal while you're in there)

Thomas J. Barbera wrote:
> 
> Dear q-listers,
> 
> My brother has an '87 4kq which has been making some very disturbing
> noises as of late.  It all started on his trip down to TX when he began
> to hear intermittant clanking noises coming from the engine.  It doesn't
> sound like the normal valve ticking, it's louder and sounds more like a
> clank than a tick.  My cousin who is a mechanic thought that is sounded
> like a rod bearing is going, but said the car would've never made it
> back to PA if that were the case.  The only thing that he can guess is
> that a lifter is bad, but he said he never heard a bad lifter make that
> much noise before.  The car runs fine, but it has this intermittant
> clanking.  If anyone could give me some advice on this problem before we
> rip into it, I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
> 
> Tom B.
> '86 4kq (soon to be 4ktq)
> '87 5ktqw (donor)

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Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT; 73 F250