Engine SOund

[Alawa]

Whenever i accelerate my car, or rev it when it gets past 3-4k it start to make a clinkign sound, and when im driving it only does it before i shift, any ideas? Someone said its just valves in cold weather?

[Nico]

What kind of engine do you have ? What year ? I don't know if I could help but we will need to know this anyway

[Gen3cruiser]

If I were you I'd stop driving it imeadiatly! My old corolla started clicking one day and I didn't think anything of it. The click started at high RPM's, but the more I drove it the clicking stared at lower and lower RPM's, until eventually it was clicking from 1000 RPM's up. Clicking became extremely loud and 2 days after the clicking stared BOOM!!!! My engine blew up!

Don't drive it any more! It might already be too late, but get it tiwed, don't drive, towed to your shop.

[Alawa]

itx a 99 camry le, 5sfe engine, 55k on it. the temp has been in the 20s around here lately. I hope its not like gen3 cruiser was depicting.

[Nick]

you might want to get it looked at, the valves probably need adjusting

[Hook]

timing advance curve needs adjusting maybe? if it's the same thing like what happened to Gen3cruiser then it's prolly timing related (bad springs in the distributor messing up the centrifuge advance and causing 'pinking', which can lead to detonation)...I'll try to find the page I went to when I adjusted mine

[Punisher]

u have pinging.. which is valve clatter... which is bad unless you like bent valves and pre-det

[Your Uncle Moe]

Maybe its a noisy lifter? My car clicks all the time. It always clicked ever since the first day I had it.

[Alawa]

I took it to the shop and they said it was a bad timing belt, so they replace it and the sound is still there, susposedly they heard my timing belt slipping, but how could they miss the clank clank sound, god! I am so frustrated.

[dan99solara]

your lifters are clicking because of the dirt and carbon build up. its normal and it doesnt hurt anything really. i got rid of mine in my old acura legend by using AutoRX engine cleaner that you add in your oil and drive around for about 1500 miles and flush it out. worked really good. search for AutoRX on yahoo. its only 20$ a bottle and its well worth it if you really want the lifters to stop clicking. but i think you got riped off with the timing belt thing.

[Nick]

who knows about the timing belt, i didn't see it, did you?

anyways, how close was it to have to be replaced?

[Alawa]

it was 4,000 miles from its 60,000 service, so i didnt get ripped tha tbad, but could carbon build up be pronounced at 56k?

[Nick]

if you drive like a blind old lady, yes...

when i got my car (never been over 120kph or 4000rpm) the car was in great shape, but the engine was shit, so the entire intake and manifold an cleaned that off, got as much of the varnish off the interior as i could, then i drove the piss out of the car, then i cleaned it again

and now she runs fine (you gotta warm her right up every once in a while

[Alawa]

Toyota called me and said i threw somethign in the engien, they are replacing it all free of charge.