okay on the way home at night i was driving my car and noticed a new noise that i am not fond of... it sounds like metal clanging together, and when i turn off the engine, it kinda does it crazy then stops, i havent had the chance to look at it yet but i will post what i find when i do, a friend told me its the timing chain, but wouldnt that make my car not run at all? the funny thing is.. is that i noticed that the car was being a little bit faster too, i have a 5.0 tpi... any, i mean ANY ideas on what it could be would really help me out.. thanks

-Blair

oh yeah, if i have the foot off the gas, and give it a little bit of gas then let go, it clangs pretty bad, then goes back to its normal every other second or so clanging..

Is it while the car is running or just on startup?

i had a 72 monte carlo that had a similar thing happen the gear on the cam was pretty much half way gone but it gave kind of a clang noise almost like a rod knock but higher pitched and when you rev the engine it would go with the revs when i changed it out i also ended up replacing the timing cover because it wore a hole in it


i drove it home about 25 miles with it like this ..

got lucky

My 85 5.0 felt noticeably stronger the day before my timing chain spun off the sprocket completely. I figure it must have skipped a tooth and advanced or retarded the cam.

Didn't make any noise though - except when it failed completely and the pistons banged into the valves.

it does it while its runing, and the noise sounds kinda random.

so this is a pretty serious problem? sweet...

yeah i would have it checked for sure i wouldnt doubt that it is the timing chain gear but we cant be certain without being there in person

yup, get it to a shop and have it checked out. Or find a buddy who knows more to help you out

*laugh* i finally got around to looking at it, its the harmonic balancer, it came loose, 50 bucks at autozone and voila, no problems..

what was it doing ???

comming apart??

it just sits there free, spins when the car is on, moves foward and back while spinning, im not too sure as to what it looked liek before it wenb bad but it still has the timing mark on it and everything, all i guess i can say to that is that its loose