{"id":47,"date":"2009-04-28T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-04-29T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T16:01:26","slug":"the-joys-of-rod-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/the-joys-of-rod-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Rod Knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy is spread all over my garage again.<\/p>\n<p>We noticed that the car was running lean under boost, and although I didn&#8217;t get any misfire codes or hear any detonation, I suspect that a rod bearing is on the way out.  After replacing the fuel pump we fired the car up again and noticed a tapping\/knocking sound emanating from the engine between 2000 and 2500 rpm.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AanY_4w-btc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;fmt=18\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AanY_4w-btc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;fmt=18\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s time for a complete teardown, hopefully it&#8217;s just a bearing and no other damage has been done.  Right now I have the engine out and on the stand, and I&#8217;m waiting for a hardened 10mm allen socket to break the notoriously-difficult cam gear bolts loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy is spread all over my garage again. We noticed that the car was running lean under boost, and although I didn&#8217;t get any misfire codes or hear any detonation, I suspect that a rod bearing is on the way out. After replacing the fuel pump we fired the car up again and noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aussiedan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}