Engine knocking...can anyone give me some information or advice. Yesterday I was driving and went to enter the freeway. Car seemed fined until I realized it took forever to get up to 80mph and 4th looked like it was 43094732miles away. I exited back to the streets and heard a knocking, so I pulled over popped my hood and tried to listen. I noticed my car was also running very hot for only being out about 10 minutes. I thought it might be just a valve or valve spring but as I tried to go home it got worse and my car stalled. I was able to restart and get home safely. Car starts up fine and runs at idle and doesnt knock until about 2500 to 3000 rpm. Would appreciate if anyone out there might have the slightest clue as to whats going on. fyi car is a 96 ls, pretty much stock.

 

The first thing you need to do is have someone figure out whether it's coming from the head or the rotating assembly.

 

sounds like a rod knock .... but first check the valve adjuster nuts ... sometimes they will come loose and will cause this problem

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Stripped Honda &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">sounds like a rod knock .... but first check the valve adjuster nuts ... sometimes they will come loose and will cause this problem </TD></TR></TABLE> that could be it but valvetrain is more of loud ticking (I had a nut 3 turns off of the rocker arm after a mis-shift)

 

thanks, ill have to to check into these things. im hoping its something simple as the nuts and that its not time for a new motor.

 

is there oil in there???

 

just changed the oil less then a month ago, there should have been oil in there ..............dipstick didnt even read. I checked everything visible underneath and inside the bay and found no leaks, so now im really scared.

 

no oil

 

yep noo oil..the same thing happened to me last week wit my beater

 

have sum1 turn on your.. wit you under the hood.. hold down all 4 plugs and see what cyl is knockin.. for me is was number 3

 

your drankn too much beer and forgot to add oil or you need to pull the motor .

how many miles on motor?

 

175,000

 

It doesn't matter the timeframe in which you changed your oil. One month could be 8000 miles or 20 miles depending on how much you drive and rag on your car.


Change your oil again...add 4 quarts if you don't know.

 

if it comes down to a new motor does anyone know of any good shops with decent prices for swaps in the so cal area, want to dump the non vtec and go c1 or c5.