This car wasn't very quiet when we got it around two years ago, but now the valve"tapping" noises are so loud that I can hear my wife coming when shes' still two blocks away (maybe a slight exaggeration). The exhaust system is fine, its just the valves. The engine seems to be as peppy as at first with acceleration, and I had the valves adjusted not long ago. It sounds like it is just a couple of the valves that are loud, one especially. Does this require an expensive top-engine overhaul? New rocker arms, or the valves themselves?
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19 years ago