ricardoa1
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Before I part this cancer of a car, I’d like to remain calm and definitively check my brain and senses because I swear I am loosing it or maybe I just know the car too well. Here we go, so my car has been quieter with the new muffler and I went through several gaskets to get rid of an exhaust leak in the long tubes. I know what a header leak sounds like and I had one and it’s typically during acceleration that that particular pulsating noise is present. Well recently the engine has a mechanical sewing machine sound, sorta like a locomotive chug pulsation. I had wound it up to 6000 rpms under part throttle about two weeks ago and I feel something happened since. But my senses might be fooling me and maybe it’s just long tube typical sounds. I just can’t wrap my head around it since I’m conflicted for the sound to be normal. Car still has power, idle seems to have a different soundtrack like pulsation of a misfire, but there are no misfires anymore. The sewing machine noise seems to be more present on the drivers side. Any thoughts? Lifters are not adjustable. Did I bend pushrods? Lose rockers? Is it normal? Car drives similar, But I feel something is wrong.
Going to the schedule a shrink appt for my lunacy. Any frustrated SC owners want to join? Might be cheaper as a group.
Going to the schedule a shrink appt for my lunacy. Any frustrated SC owners want to join? Might be cheaper as a group.
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