my camry engine sounds like chickens - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

future_spiegel · 05-31-2008, 08:33 PM

yeap, its the one on teh 200 dollar camry, so if anyone can make anything out of the video and give me a faint idea as to what it could be i'd really appreciate it.

Im going to replace the engine and if this one is still good i might fix it and modify it while i still have a working car.

thansk ahead.

samarai912 · 05-31-2008, 08:43 PM

thats so funny! it looks like the camera is taking cover from the chicken noises!!haha.
but anyway....will it stay running? how many miles? its hard to say the video was so short.

samarai912 · 05-31-2008, 08:45 PM

I looked again and It seems its just the belt right? and for the hard to start you try cleaning the maf and the throttle body and use seafoam through the whole system.

cruisn76 · 05-31-2008, 11:54 PM

hahah it does sound like a Chicken. Can anyone tell if his starting is bad? Can you tell by that sound when he is cranking?

future_spiegel · 06-01-2008, 01:17 AM

well basically first it wasn't starting because the battery was low so thats why the video kinda changes position in the midway.

The car has 175k miles i dont think it was mantained at all and it stays on for a little bit but eventually goes off after about 30-60 seconds and i dont really want to keep trying to run the engine so as to prevent it from exploding.

EEngineer · 06-01-2008, 01:27 AM

IT doeS sound like a CHICKEN!

samarai912 · 06-01-2008, 03:21 AM

I don't think thats the battery buddy. show me with a charged batt.

Black95Cam · 06-01-2008, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by future_spiegel

well basically first it wasn't starting because the battery was low so thats why the video kinda changes position in the midway.

The car has 175k miles i dont think it was mantained at all and it stays on for a little bit but eventually goes off after about 30-60 seconds and i dont really want to keep trying to run the engine so as to prevent it from exploding.

hahaha nice description.. throw a few more chicken in there and hope that it'll runs.. jk

have you tested teh battery to see how volts it has without cranking the car. and have some else crank the car to see how much the volts drop. also check for air, fuel and compression.

lgcongbach · 06-01-2008, 01:23 PM

carburetor

xtremeskier97 · 06-01-2008, 01:37 PM

There is no carburetor in our cars. They are fuel injected.

future_spiegel · 06-02-2008, 12:59 AM

lol, carburated camry.

and yes it needs moar chicken.

no but seriously, if you look at the video closely you'll see that its actually 2 parts, the second part is where it started because i put a battery that was fully charged.

i was trying to see if anyone know what the cluncking (clucking?) noise is in the engine, be it rods, pistons or what.

Kingdom934 · 06-02-2008, 12:37 PM

Hard to say.

How does it idle? That noise gave me shivers in my back alright...

future_spiegel · 06-02-2008, 05:05 PM

well when you turn it on it idles at 900 or so rpms (i didnt want to give it gas least it explode)

it idles roughly as you can see and then it dies by itself.

i might try to take another (longer) video and hope the engine doesnt blow its internals on my driveway.

Black95Cam · 06-02-2008, 08:12 PM

Don Julio, thats not to far from me.. did you check to see if there are enough fuel pressure?

future_spiegel · 06-02-2008, 10:25 PM

well i have an update on the engine, i started it again and gave it some gas and it ran albeit with the noise and died when i let go of the gas so i started to do some digging and noticed that vapor was coming out of the water reservoir.

turns out that the vapor smells like gasoline and there were some metal dust at the bottom of the water and when i checked the oil it was very milky.

after that i proceeded to check the air filter for the hell of it when i found that basically the engine puked oil through the air intake and into the air filter (its soaked in oil in the part closest to the intake) and the bottom of the airbox has very dark oil.

needless to say i think the engine is about as clucked as a chicken at a KFC slaughterhouse before animal rights caught them.

also blackcam thanks for the tip but i think the fuel pressure is good, altought i'd like to meet up someday and talk camry's

oh also, pending me getting the new engine and seeing what parts are on it, im selling parts off this engine (intake manifold, exhaust man etc) so let me know if you need something.