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Rattling Tin Sound in engine bay at idle
Topic Started: Feb 9 2011, 09:57 AM (3,819 Views)
nerys
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Grr

mine is clearly the exhaust (probable cat have not confirmed yet) I confirmed this by grabbing my tail pipe engine off and shacking things up. I heart my rattle so it must be exhaust. either cat or exhaust "hitting" something somewhere.
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Good bye


Often times as the cat fails small parts of the honeycomb will travel back in the exhaust system collecting in the resonator and muffler. So the cat may have failed and you need to remove the rest of the system and dump out all the pieces. :)
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Woodie
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dayle1960
Mar 1 2011, 07:16 PM


Tonight I replaced the cap and rotor thinking that the old c&r was worn out and causing my engine to get out of timing somehow. When I rotated the cap towards the firewall I noticed that it would not rotate because it hit the stop. The timing was about 5-6 degrees.

After I installed the new cap and rotor I still had the dissy hitting the stop (dissy turned all the way to the firewall) and the timing was 8 degrees. New cap and rotor changed the timing.

This is off topic, but you've got something wrong there. Turned all the way to the stop should be 20­° or so.
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thresher shark
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Fresh Fish...mmmm....tasty!

On my 92 Metro, the sheet metal air dam in front of the engine has a broken mounting tab and it makes a rattling sound like you describe.
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