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volvo engine noise

  • 20-12-2010 7:03pm
    #1
    itarumaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7Nutp_yyE

    What would that noise be, timing belt related or something else. And can I drive the car at all even short time?

    The problem is that I will be leaving country soon, so spending about 400e for new belt does not interest me at all, but continue to drive and destroy the engine is not nice idea either.


Comments

  • #2
    Row
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭Row


    Give us the model..engine..year and we may have some place to start...:confused:


  • #3
    itarumaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭itarumaa


    Car is Volvo s40, 2l petrol, 140k miles,

    the sound started today and it is quite metallic, high pitched noise.

    When I rev up the engine it disappears but comes back when idle speed.


  • #4
    Row
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭Row


    hmmm....Its very difficult to know from the clip...?
    Is the noise coming from the T-belt area...?
    Or maybe from the gearbox area..??
    Have seen one of these to break a T-belts due to high milage between a T-belt change,so it would be wise to get it checked out to confirm where the noise is coming from.


  • #5
    itarumaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭itarumaa


    I think it is maybe one of the belt pulleys that is making the noise.

    I did check the t-belt and it is worn, but still ok.

    I do not think it is the gearbox, since it is definitely coming from the engine end where timing belt is.


  • #6
    Bigus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭Bigus


    If its a petrol that now sounds like a diesel at idle, its quiet common. Its the mechanism that varies the cam timing , new oil and filter may cure , has done for me in the past , maybe flush first.


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  • #7
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Bigus wrote: »
    If its a petrol that now sounds like a diesel at idle, its quiet common. Its the mechanism that varies the cam timing , new oil and filter may cure , has done for me in the past , maybe flush first.


    Are you referring to Volvos VVT thing or BMWs VANOS? Reason I ask is I know VANOS is known for a rattle, but ive never heard of a VVT pulley on a Volvo rattling.


  • #8
    gyppo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gyppo


    VVT assembly is very prone to sticking on the S40s - I've had 2 S40's, and both were rattly.


  • #9
    gibbon75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭gibbon75


    SouperComputer wrote: »
    Are you referring to Volvos VVT thing or BMWs VANOS? Reason I ask is I know VANOS is known for a rattle, but ive never heard of a VVT pulley on a Volvo rattling.

    I've sold two pulleys this week alone ;)


  • #10
    itarumaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭itarumaa


    Ok, a pulley seized and alternator belt jumped, so no more charching or power steering.

    Do you think I could get the pulley running with copper paste or do I need a new pulley.

    It is the pulley in the block, where are two small ones next to each one. One moves and one does not.


  • #11
    itarumaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭itarumaa


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    Broken part, this is a pulley from belt tensioner, any ideas where I could get another one?


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