Loud clicking noise (sounds like the timing belt) from the engine bay.
#1
Banned
Thread Starter
Loud clicking noise (sounds like the timing belt) from the engine bay.
So I came out of a resturaunt the other day, was chatting with my friends outside the place and started my car to get it warmed up while we were still chatting, then I heard this loud clicking noise coming from my engine bay?
Is this normal?
Anyone else experience this?
Is this normal?
Anyone else experience this?
#4
Only does it at cold start, usually in colder weather? Does it disappear after you rev the engine once or twice? If that's the case, I got the same problem. Not sure if this is normal, but I'm taking my TL-S in soon.
#5
WDP Director of R & D
Originally Posted by Aristo82
Only does it at cold start, usually in colder weather? Does it disappear after you rev the engine once or twice? If that's the case, I got the same problem. Not sure if this is normal, but I'm taking my TL-S in soon.
Is it a ticking like an old lifter or a deeper knocking sound. Hopefully it's not piston slap and/or a tight wrist-pin - known to happen however rare.
Could just be the belts but that usually only happens if someone has sprayed belt dressing on them due to squealing etc..
Keep us posted on what the stealership tells ya..
Best of luck guys
#6
WDP Director of R & D
Originally Posted by TheWanderer316
I started to hear that after i got my pulley and belt installed, guy told me he didnt hear anything and that it was just how the engine sounds. I think the belt is too tight though.
One never knows however...
#7
Banned
Thread Starter
Originally Posted by Aristo82
Only does it at cold start, usually in colder weather? Does it disappear after you rev the engine once or twice? If that's the case, I got the same problem. Not sure if this is normal, but I'm taking my TL-S in soon.
Maybe I should take it to the shop to get it checked out.
Trending Topics
#8
Registered Member
Remove the top engine cover (which covers the heads and surrounds the intake manifold). Get a 3 foot section of garden hose, preferrably with the female threaded coupling still attached. Start the engine and using the hose like a stethoscope with the female part as the earpiece, move the other end around the valve covers first, the the fuel rails and injectors. This is a good way to help isolate the area from which the sound originates.
A few possibles? An out-of-adjustment cam follower. A faulty injector.
Question. Does this sound occur all the time or just soon after starting the engine then go away?
A few possibles? An out-of-adjustment cam follower. A faulty injector.
Question. Does this sound occur all the time or just soon after starting the engine then go away?
#9
I would do the stethascope trick (5$ at harbor freight tools for mechanics stethascope)
My 01 had a ticking and it was the AC belt tensioner pulley a/k/a Idler Pulley was bad.
Replaced that assembly and she is like a sewing machine again
My 01 had a ticking and it was the AC belt tensioner pulley a/k/a Idler Pulley was bad.
Replaced that assembly and she is like a sewing machine again
#10
Registered Member
Originally Posted by 01tl4tl
I would do the stethascope trick (5$ at harbor freight tools for mechanics stethascope)
My 01 had a ticking and it was the AC belt tensioner pulley a/k/a Idler Pulley was bad.
Replaced that assembly and she is like a sewing machine again
My 01 had a ticking and it was the AC belt tensioner pulley a/k/a Idler Pulley was bad.
Replaced that assembly and she is like a sewing machine again
#11
Banned
Thread Starter
Originally Posted by SouthernBoy
Remove the top engine cover (which covers the heads and surrounds the intake manifold). Get a 3 foot section of garden hose, preferrably with the female threaded coupling still attached. Start the engine and using the hose like a stethoscope with the female part as the earpiece, move the other end around the valve covers first, the the fuel rails and injectors. This is a good way to help isolate the area from which the sound originates.
A few possibles? An out-of-adjustment cam follower. A faulty injector.
Question. Does this sound occur all the time or just soon after starting the engine then go away?
A few possibles? An out-of-adjustment cam follower. A faulty injector.
Question. Does this sound occur all the time or just soon after starting the engine then go away?
#12
Well then- its not a belt noise- you need to do the stethascope trick and locate the prob.
#13
Here's what mine sounds like. Is this typical?
Wish there were other TLs to compare around my area...
www.bushinkaiusa.com/MOV01143.MPG
Wish there were other TLs to compare around my area...
www.bushinkaiusa.com/MOV01143.MPG
#14
Senior Moderator
it is a bad belt tensioner, I had the same problem, the automatic belt tensioner was faulty and was making a knocking noise. I got it fixed, and the motor was dead silent, but then a month later it came back....
#15
we are both talking about the AC belt tensioner right CSM? and you replaced the entire unit- about 80 bucks parts store?
Mine went out recently and was a tickin away bad~
If another similar noise appeared afterwards- next thought would be- is it time for a timing belt and tensioner?
Mine went out recently and was a tickin away bad~
If another similar noise appeared afterwards- next thought would be- is it time for a timing belt and tensioner?
#17
Senior Moderator
I;m not sure, acura replaced it under warranty. I think it was the one that you can see, but am not sure. All the paperwork said was Belt Tensioner faulty, replaced per acura.
#18
Banned
Thread Starter
I have worst things to care about right now.
Maybe I'll get both fixed at the same time.
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=170211
Maybe I'll get both fixed at the same time.
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=170211
#19
Cruising in my
I've been having the same click sound coming from my engine too.. but mine has been more of a chirping sound. It's really annoying.
I have all the engine covers off and it's definitely coming from the area near all the belts on the left side of the engine.
I never heard it when the engine is cold... only when I've driven for a while or when the engine is warmed up. Revving doesn't really change the sound of it at all as far as I can tell. I'll take a sound clip when I get home later.
I have all the engine covers off and it's definitely coming from the area near all the belts on the left side of the engine.
I never heard it when the engine is cold... only when I've driven for a while or when the engine is warmed up. Revving doesn't really change the sound of it at all as far as I can tell. I'll take a sound clip when I get home later.
#20
1st Gear
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: overland park, ks
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
noise from engine at first start & on cold days
I heard a similar noise yesterday, which was amplified when I turned the steering wheel of my 04 TL.
Visited my local Acura dealers. They flushed my steering rack and everything seems in working order (steering fluid was dirty).
Visited my local Acura dealers. They flushed my steering rack and everything seems in working order (steering fluid was dirty).
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
asahrts
Member Cars for Sale
0
09-04-2015 05:55 PM