I'm new to these cars. I got one of these a few months ago and planned on using it as a project to restore for fun. I have been driving it as is because it worked. I do have to get it smogged and clean up some neglect but it was getting me around ok with no funky noises.
Yesterday I came off the freeway and all of a sudden the high pressure oil buzzer constantly started going off. I heard a racket of screeches and clunks in the engine bay and the engine was loping near idle speed. So too many wierd things at once to ignore, but I had to get off the road so i probably ran the car about a minute after before turning it off. just putting my safety first because of where i was vs. potentially blowing up a motor. i had to work and came back to cold car. i have good fluids and started it up for a bit. it ran with just the hint of stumbling although i don't know if these cars typically do that while warming up. it wasn't loping the same. i reved it and didn't get the light to come on but noticed the racket sounded like its on the drive belt system. while engine was running only odd thing i noticed is shavings i think near the intermediate shaft from the lower plastic timing belt cover. couldn't quite tell if another pully was actually touching it. im i correct to assume that if something in vbelt system dragged all it would do is slow down the timing belt, but that would still turn the im shaft without interference? is it possible a pulley wobbled its way into the im shaft and held it up? i sure didn't smell smoking timing belt and will have to look closer. it has power steering, alternator, water pump with 2 vbelts. or maybe something bad happned inside engine with oil pump or the im bearings and the pulley side is worn and walking out and hitting? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/af959f0b-50cd-474c-917b-f978104e7adb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
