Connecting rod - Maintenance/Repairs - Car Talk Community
2015年5月4日 · Unless the car was low on oil or over revved, connecting rod bearing problems don’t usually just materialize out of thin air like that. Generally you notice a tapping, which gets louder and louder over time, but this process doesn’t usually take minutes, more like days. However, as ok said, you may have spun a bearing.
Connecting rod - Maintenance/Repairs - Car Talk Community
2015年2月19日 · The term “Hot Rod” is almost certainly derived from the connecting rods tendency to fail when an engine is pushed beyond its designed limits. And when a rod is “thrown” it will usually blow out the pan or block and a great deal of oil will then leak out. A thrown rod is a very catastrophic failure.
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2007年7月31日 · I have a possible broken connecting rod in my engine, the car starts and idles but there is a hideous knocking sound in the lower enging, how much would it be to fix it or would i be better off getting a new engine? my car is a 2001 Ford Focus with about 80,000 miles on it
Rav4, 170K miles, connecting rod noise - Car Talk Community
2023年10月27日 · Was looking at buying a 2010 Rav4 with about 170K miles. Looked pretty good aside from needing new rear wheel bearings. Wanted a mechanic to take a look, so the seller dropped the car off Wednesday night at a local mechanic’s for a Thursday morning check-up. After sitting out all night there was a rattling noise in the engine in the morning on …
Worn Connecting Rod Bearing Cylinder 4 - Car Talk Community
4 Likes. ok4450 November 1, 2016, 2:46am 3. The odds of a bearing being worn out on one cylinder only with everything else being fine is about zero. If one is badly worn the others are not far behind. As to installing a new or oversize bearing there are some caveats to that. If the crank journal is badly worn and/or the rod big end beat out a ...
Connecting Rod Bearings - Maintenance/Repairs - Car Talk …
2016年9月29日 · I disassembled a 3.7 V6 engine that had a rod knocking . # 4 rod bearing was shot . All the rest of the rod bearings & the main bearings looked good . Is there a likely reason one bearing would fail & all the rest are good ? Lack of oil to that one bearing , …
Early connecting rod noise - Car Talk Community
2009年3月1日 · A connecting rod failure is major, not to be messed with. redtag March 1, 2009, 6:33pm 13. use a mechanics stethoscope to determine locale of noise, sounds like a lower bearing. Pull btm. pan and you will be able to see condition of bearings/crank and see if …
Connecting rod bearing failure BMW M5 - Car Talk Community
2007年11月2日 · A % always recirculates. There’s always the possibility of a fluke assembly line failure but the chance of this is near zero. Rod bearing failures are caused by: Overrevving and/or hard driving. Lack of regular oil changes. Running the oil level low, or completely empty if someone left a drain plug loose, etc.
Threw a rod - Maintenance/Repairs - Car Talk Community
2010年5月12日 · A thrown rod means a piston has come loose and lots of metal parts have slammed together out of control. Sometimes it produces a hole in the block and most certainly a badly scoured cylinder wall. By the time you take the motor apart to evaluate the damage you could have another motor in the car. The motor is shot and not repairable. JayWB May ...
Broken connecting rod - Maintenance/Repairs - Car Talk Community
2007年10月26日 · Car Talk Community Broken connecting rod. Maintenance/Repairs. JAMES_CONNELLY October 26, 2007, ...