James, what do you mean "a deep knocking sound". When the motor is idling the valve lifters can make a knocking sound. Is yours hydraulic or not? Regards Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: james peters <rickenhacker@hotmail.com> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: Is she dead? again.
> Glad Gerry is back! > My 1980 2.0 Vanagon is making a deep knocking sound. It just happened today > when I started it. I last used it on Friday, only sat two days. > I recently (Nov 99) had the heads redone, and now I think its a rod knock. > Is my engine toast? > How can I really tell? > Haven't done a compression test or anything yet, just hung my head and > cried> :( > Where to go from here? > > Thanks > Rick > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com |
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