If you friend put new plugs and wires in recently I would check them out really well. I have a "friend" that installed new plugs in his truck once and had an odd miss, discovered he had cracked an insulator on a plug....
If you friend put new plugs and wires in recently I would check them out really well. I have a "friend" that installed new plugs in his truck once and had an odd miss, discovered he had cracked an insulator on a plug....
Does it have stock cams?
cam...
Yeah, that's what I meant, I'm just so used to having multiple cams, I add an s out of habit.
as far as i'm aware the cam is stock. I'll try and get a video/audio recording of this sound with my phone.
okay here is couple videos i shot with my phone, audio quality isint that great but you should be able to hear the popping sound.
2nd one is just idling
2nd one is just idling
It doesn't as the 2.3 is a non-interference motor that will not much the valves when you break a timing belt like most of foreign 4-bangers. You are probably a tooth off on the timing belt as it is very easy to do on these motors when changing the belt. Changed mine twice on my 84 SVO and about 4 other T-bird, Merkur, and SVOs that I knew when I owned it. This sounds like the same symptoms that I had on my first belt change if I remember correctly.
well the verdict is in. Apparently when it jumped time it broke a rocker arm and jacked the cam up.
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