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clattery noise at front end of my engine

1986 CJ7 4 cylinder (150K miles but engine was rebuilt at 90K) I was hoping it might be the fan......took it off. Still clattering . Maybe the alternator or power steering pump.......took them off. Still clattering OK it must be the timing chain. Opened it up and the chain is pretty sloppy and it has a chain tensioner device that's not even shown in my Haynes manual. I will replace these parts next weekend. Hopefully that will do the trick..........
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rjh44
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twaldron

Amen to that one - happened on my wife's explorer........... Was really loud- never expected a harmonic balancer to clack-clack that loud.

placed a screw driver between my ear & every other part of that engine. By the time I found it the hole in the crank was stripped. I was going to heli-coil it. Everyone said it wouldn't work, but I figured I had nothing to lose. I had put a lot of other heli-coils in a lot of other places in B-52's, F-4's,F100's, SR71's, etc.......couldn't quite get the right angle or leverage & broke the tap in the hole. Had to pull the engine half out to get the tap out so I did the long block thing.

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Carlo

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rjh44

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L.W.( ßill ) Hughes III

rjh44 did pass the time by typing:

Good to hear you found the problem.

If you don't mind, how many miles did you have on her when this happened.

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DougW

DougW did pass the time by typing:

Nevermind.. Guess I should have read the post again.. the answer to my question was in there.

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DougW

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