Originally Posted by
NeedCAforS13
Just for grins, let's vote on how f'd up my SR is and see who knows their SR20's.
The situation: Rod knocking about 2500-3000rpm. Not really noticeable at idle yet. Started about 1/2 mile from my house while I was out getting food, drove it home. Had/has fresh oil in it, new filter - 2 weeks old. I'm thinking maybe high mileage/old oil pump shitting out caused the issue. Or just ancient bearings. I dunno. No scientific evidence to point to exactly what's wrong with it. Gotta pull the motor out of the car this weekend and see what needs to be replaced. Which doesn't really bother me since I needed to change out the clutch/flywheel and I hate pulling the transmission in the driveway. Haha.
Already ordered new oil pump/cover and oil pickup tube and I will order new bearings once I get it opened up. I'm crossing my fingers that I can just pull out the bad bearings, put fresh ones in with a new pump, and call it a day.
But how fucked do you think it is? And why?
If you can hear the rod knock, you need a new crank. You probably need a new rod too, but you can like, check stuff and measure stuff to tell you that further. I wouldn't want to re trust those rod bolts after that though.
and its fucked up b/c it probably got driven on a crushed pickup for a while.