HI Shaun,
I guess thats why Agent Smart had a cannon on the front !
You say you went off into gravel and the noise is more prevalent when
the car is moving.
Is there any chance some of the gravel got inside the bellhousing ?
regards
Jeff
In message <000001c8bdf3$c8cd00c0$6501a8c0@main>, Shaun Laughy
<tigerv8@rogers.com> writes
>Hi, folks.
>
>It was a beautiful day here in Toronto, today. Not too hot, not too
>cool -- just right for an early summer cruise. So I thought I would
>take the Tiger out for an afternoon drive, and was really enjoying
>myself, right up to the moment that a carload of drunk teens almost
>killed me by pulling out into oncoming traffic (me) to try to pass a
>long line of traffic. With nowhere to go, my choice was either a
>head-on, or hard on the brakes and then off into the soft gravel
>shoulder at about 40 mph. The fact that I am typing this tells you how
>I chose. I managed to get her stopped, with some drama, and,
>thankfully, no apparent damage. I even had a microsecond to notice that
>the kids were laughing as the went by less than six inches to my left,
>and one looked to be threatening to throw a beer bottle at me. Although
>I feel like I want to kill them, I really hope they made it home alive,
>if you know what I mean.
>
>All seemed fine, so I pulled back onto the road to continue on my
>journey, only to hear a strange sound under load. At first, I thought
>it was still my heart trying to escape my chest, but it quickly became
>evident that it was coming from the engine, which had been performing
>flawlessly until that point. I'm hoping that you folks might be able to
>assist me in determining what could be wrong. Here are the symptoms:
>
>Under load, I hear a loud clattering noise that sounds like
>exceptionally loud pinging or a bad exhaust leak. In neutral, I can
>only replicate this for brief moments by hitting the throttle hard, but
>on the road it happens when I am accelerating even a little bit. There
>is no constant noise at idle, and I could detect no issues with the
>exhaust anywhere. The engine runs smoothly when not under load, and all
>gauges read normally.
>
>After looking for an obvious cause for awhile, I finally pulled off the
>air cleaner, and was able to consistently re-create the problem by
>blipping the throttle hard. What seems to be happening is that the car
>is spitting back through the carb under load, which it has never done
>before. Does this maybe sound like a timing issue or something similar?
>
>
>Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Shaun
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